"Wherever the brokenness of sin touches, wherever fragmentation and alienation occurs, the mission of God looks like putting back together what evil has torn apart."--Glenn Packiam Physical injuries often require external intervention to facilitate healing. Washing a laceration to remove impurities, soothing a wound with the application of ointment, the surgical alignment of bones, (in …
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Lamentation
"Not to grieve is to deny the reality of love."N.T. Wright In as much we know the deep goodness of this world, we know too that it is deeply broken. Our communities are frayed by disease and violence. Our families are untethered by social separation so that our elders shrink in isolation and marriages dissolve …
In the Beginning
"At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, …" —T.S. Eliot from Burnt Norton, Four Quartets If you were to ask me to name the primary force shaping the conversation of our world today, I would say fear. No …
