In this series of posts, we are considering injustice, conflict and war in our world. And how I am contributing personally to these in my own life and relationships, when I allow my wounds to lead me into slavery to anger and violence. If I can’t deal with the violence in my own heart, how can I expect to deal with the violence of nations?
In my first post in this series, we ended with the question: What’s a third way forward which avoids the risks of both flight and fight? Today I want to consider the radical case for non-violent resistance.
The new pope is…like the son of Jacob who, meeting with his brothers, showed them the tenderness of his heart and, bursting into tears, said, “I am Joseph, your brother.” Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, seventy-seven years old and newly installed as Pope John XXIII, surprised the crowds gathered for his coronation Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica when he spoke these words directly to them. Rarely had a pope used such personal language before.
In this post, I want to consider how we experience anger as a result of wounding from injustice or another cause. And how that often moves us toward vengeance and violence in our hearts.
As a result of certain conflicts and wars affecting the global scene, there have been more conversations around the topic of war in recent times. Today, I want us to take more of a personal look and ask the question, ‘How am I (and you) contributing to conflict and war?’
As we prepare to observe the ‘Week of Prayer for Christian Unity’ in the Northern Hemisphere from Jan.18th-25th, it’s a good time to remember the legacy of a Catholic pioneer, who worked for unity in the ‘Body of Christ’ – Fr. Paul Courtier.
If you would like to learn more about the Catholic faith as a Catholic or a Christian from another faith tradition, here’s two resources that you might want to consider
If you haven’t yet watched ‘The Chosen’, I encourage you to consider viewing it in this New Year. It will help you see Jesus as so much more relatable.
As I shared in a recent post, it’s only been in recent years, that the reality of Jesus being fully man and the importance of that has come home to me. Why is it so important that Jesus was & is fully human too; and not only fully God? The short answer is that He
One of the beautiful truths about Jesus’ birth that’s come home more to me, is that it reveals God’s preferred style of approaching us: “which is neither grandiose nor noisy, but rather a style characterized by hiddenness and littleness.”
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