Don’t give up chocolate for Lent this year, said Pope Francis. Give up indifference to the poor. “Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.”Describing thisContinue reading “Loving your neighbor starts with noticing your neighbor.”
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Gracism: The art of radical inclusion
Oookay that last post ended up going to a much broader audience than I intended! I’m thankful to the people who have kept their comments civil, as this is something the internet discourages us from doing these days. That’s what we Christians do, it’s part of our witness to the watching world. We disagree, butContinue reading “Gracism: The art of radical inclusion”
What Christian Politics looks like
Surveys show that one of the reasons millennial are leaving the evangelical church is that they perceive it to be too political. I relate to this (probably because I grew up in another country, and seeing American flags on the front stage of churches is just still very odd to me). The evangelical church has beenContinue reading “What Christian Politics looks like”
A second book to help you on your journey (and, so what can I DO??)
If you read Daniel Carroll’s book, you’re probably pretty convinced that as followers of Jesus we need to be showing hospitality and welcome to immigrants. Maybe even if they are here without paperwork. But then, there are probably one-thousand other questions you have: Does helping undocumented immigrants (‘illegal immigrants’) mean that I am breaking theContinue reading “A second book to help you on your journey (and, so what can I DO??)”
Christians at the border: The First book to help you on your journey
Sometimes, you need more than a blog post to figure something out. So in the next two posts, here are two books that can really help you on your journey of digging deeper into what it means to welcome the stranger, and how you can do it practically. Both of these books are fromContinue reading “Christians at the border: The First book to help you on your journey”
Stephanie Ebert 