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Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                    Love your enemies                   and pray for those who persecute you.          If you love those who love you, what reward do you have?                   Do not even the tax collectors do the same?                            —Matthew 5.44, 46 We’re afraid to be nonviolent partly because we can’t be sure of the… Continue reading A different world

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                    I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.          Choose life so that you and your descendants may live.                   —Deuteronomy 30.19 It’s not a game show with two doors, a test with a right and a wrong answer. There’s no reward or punishment. It’s life,… Continue reading Choose life

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Martin, Lamb of God, laid down with lions, had a dream for us all. Don’t weep for him in his death, or mourn him in his absence: he is with us still, freed now from his little place, still praying, preaching, marching, in everyone who cries… Continue reading martin

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                    “You are my Own, my Beloved,          with whom I am well pleased.” This is as unalterable as the heavens: you are God’s Beloved, God’s own. Nothing you do or fail can change that.          I will tell of the decree of the Lord,          who said to me, “You… Continue reading Baptismal promise

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                    The blind receive their sight, the lame walk,          the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,          and the poor have good news brought to them.                            —Matthew 11.5          Strengthen the weak hands,                   and make firm the feeble knees.          Say to those who are of a… Continue reading Encourage

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                               Go and tell John what you hear and see:          the blind receive their sight, the lame walk,          the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,          and the poor have good news brought to them.                   —Matthew 11.4-5 Healing works its grace within you,… Continue reading Mending

My soul magnifies you, O Lord…                    Your praise is already alive deep within me. and my spirit rejoices in you, my Savior…          My heart reaches out to you, who reach out to me. for you have looked with favor on the lowliness of your servant.          You see not my status but my belovedness. Surely,… Continue reading A meditation on the Magnificat (Luke 1.47-55)

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                              The wolf shall live with the lamb,          and a little child shall lead them.                   —Isaiah 11.6 The coming of Christ is about more than a lovely holiday. It’s about the transformation of the world. In his ministry, and in the cross, Jesus showed us… Continue reading Wolf and lamb

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                     Fifty years ago today John F. kennedy was assassinated. “In an instant the world was changed,” or so we say. But don’t be fooled. Few things change the world in an instant. Violence, no matter how dramatic, doesn’t change anything. The world is already full of… Continue reading Conspiracy

Dearly Beloved, Grace and Peace to you.                              By the rivers of Babylon—                   there we sat down and there we wept                   when we remembered Zion….                   For there our captors asked us for songs,                   and our tormentors asked for mirth,                   saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” …          How could we sing the… Continue reading About that Psalm