by Christine Sine St Francis of Assisi was a person who modelled God’s peace (shalom) in very radical ways. October 4th is St Francis Feast Day and so it seems appropriate to begin …
When you get a hole in your sock, do you mend it or throw it away? In the Tenderloin district in San Francisco (CA), college art teacher Michael Swaine sews socks, …
The following is an active listening process which we develop some years ago to help us gain a clear sense of God’s purpose for our lives. I used it to …
I mentioned in my Saturday post The Making of Joy that I am reading Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. The quote I referred to God’s joy is to love …
Its the first day of Advent, our anticipation is building, the nativity scenes are being assembled and our images of Jesus and his family alone and abandoned in a dirty …
As many of you know at this season I tend to become an obsessive gardener and because I am currently teach a course on spirituality and gardening for a local …
“Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.” So begins one of my favourite parables, a parable that many of us are very familiar with. Some of the seed …
This morning two images have merged in my mind. This Martin Luther King quote from the Idealist and another quote from Randy Woodley’s book Shalom and the Community of Creation. When we …
Over the last few weeks I have been enjoying reading Randy Woodley’s wonderful book Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision. As many of you know, the study of shalom …
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