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Independence and Interdependence

On this Independence Day Weekend, I’m pondering the necessary tension between independence and interdependence.  It’s a tension which the Apostle Paul described, as I mentioned yesterday, in Galatians 6: “Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will...

Highway Proverbs

My friend Terry and I are on our way to Nada Hermitage near Crestone, CO, nestled Sangre de Cristo mountains.  On the road today, it struck me that some billboards attempt to offer aphorisms of wisdom—“highway proverbs.”An insurance company billboard claimed:...

Seeing Beneath the Surface

We have a tendency to see each other only superficially (which means we don’t really see each other at all). The Apostle Paul described this superficial seeing as “the human point of view.”From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even...

The Open Wound and the Dream of Beloved Community

I grew up in metropolitan Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970’s (I graduated from a high school in south Fulton County in 1975).  Atlanta was, of course, the hometown of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So, when I was in elementary school, news about his work, about the...