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At an International AIDS Conference in Toronto last August, there were demonstrations supporting men and women who choose to be sex workers, transgenders, and cross dressers. The sexual rights and choices of all people were upheld as sacred—except for one. Anyone who mentioned abstinence was publicly denounced and personally jeered. So how did the choice…

Last year, a group of us put together something we called “Worship in the Spirit of Justice.” We planned five weeks of outdoor public worship in Washington, D.C., to bring attention to the suffering in Darfur. We believe that worship is closely connected with protest: when we praise God as the One who loves the…

Community is first and foremost a gift of the Holy Spirit, not built upon mutual compatibility, shared affection, or common interests but upon having received the same divine breath, having been given a heart set aflame by the same divine fire, and having been embraced by the same divine love. – Henri Nouwen + Sign…

If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday. – Isaiah 58:9-10 + Sign up to receive…
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