Our Thanksgiving to God and Christ’s Thanksgiving for Us

Readings for Thanksgiving Day Deuteronomy 8:7-18 Psalm 65 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 Luke 17:11-19 This sermon was preached at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church in Berkeley CA on Thanksgiving November 24, 2011. You shall eat your fill and bless the LORD your God for the good land that he has given you. As a freshman at Westmont […]

Listening to God Sing My Story

This reflection was shared at the “Emerging Scholars of Christian Spirituality” Breakfast at the American Academy of Religion Conference in San Francisco CA on Sunday, November 20, 2011. Sandra Schneiders: “I suspect that the reason the self-implicating character of the study of spirituality is problematic for those of us in the discipline is not that […]

Letting Forgiveness Occupy Violence

Social activist and lay theologian William Stringfellow offers hard-hitting insight on war and peace in An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land. After insisting on the collective guilt of all humanity in perpetuating violence and the power of death (with a particularly harsh critique of the United States), Stringfellow calls Christians […]