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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 7.22.22 

1. “Christian nationalism is a religion that believes it needs a political party, president, supreme court and nation to ensure its own survival. 

Christianity is a religion that believes it needs radical love for God and neighbor to ensure the survival of the most vulnerable among us. ~ Rev. Ben Cremer

Christian nationalism is fear based. Let’s take care of ‘them’ before ‘they’ come after ‘us’ is one of the battle cries. 

Plain old Christianity is love based. Just as God has cared for us, so too, we will care for others.

Richard Rohr nails it. “People who know God well—mystics, hermits, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found as an abusive father or a tyrannical mother; God is always a lover greater than we dared hope for. How different from the “account manager” most people seem to worship. God is the lover who receives and forgives everything.”

2. “So what can help us cure our exhaustion? Where can we find the energy to stay engaged in our political system, despite its brokenness?

Personally, I turn to Paul’s pastoral letters to the church at Corinth, a community that was also grappling with bitter divisions. In his letters, Paul offers a pathway out of despair: “But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us,” he writes. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed” Paul reminds the Corinthians that their struggles and divisions never have the last word; even in their exhausted state, they are never forsaken. 

Bible scholar Wil Gafney writes that this is one of many passages in the Bible reminding us of God’s abiding presence, even when we’re feeling pressed and perplexed. Despite these things, “God chooses to dwell among the people, accompanying them through the perils of a very broken world. We are every bit as broken and God is every bit as present.” ~ Adam Russell Taylor, Sojourners

3. “You can get all A’s and still flunk life.” Walker Percy. 

Oh yah. I have known people like that. I saw one in the mirror one day. That was a wake-up call. 

4. A man came to me. He was quite bright, 

very inquisitive and 

amazingly intuitive. 

He asked the question – “How then shall I live?” 

I said, “Let me begin by showing you how not to live.” 

And so I did that. 

I showed him those in our midst 

who were quite obviously stuck on themselves, 

without conscience, 

without boundaries, 

and yet managed to be hugely influential. 

And after watching them for awhile 

he started to weep. 

As did I. 

There were so many of them. 

And they weren’t even pretending to be good.

5. Fr. Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries says that “If you’re a stranger to your own wound, then you’re going to be tempted to despise the wounded.”

That’s it. That’s the essence of so much that plagues us. Too many of us are strangers to our own wounding.  As a result the wounded and vulnerable are at risk in our presence.

6. The writer Flannery O’Connor once said “I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I’m afraid it will not be controversial.”

When you live life fully and with a deep sense of mission you will walk into and be the cause of things that are controversial. Controversy for controversy’s sake is quite often a hurtful game. Controversy for the sake of righteousness and justice is a mark of discipleship. And how we conduct ourselves in the midst of controversy is a delicate dance of discernment that is best guided by prayer. 

7. Inspired by Robert Mulholland’s terrific book “Invitation to the Journey” I’ve come to the conclusion that there is a fundamental decision I need to make upon waking each day. Will I submit today to the process of “being conformed to the image of Christ” or will I allow myself to be seduced by an “increasingly dehumanized and destructive mode of being?”

It’s at the moment of choice where life gets interesting doesn’t it?

8. As I see it, the reasons for the dearth of intelligent, grounded, hopeful Christianity in America rests at least as much on the shoulders of fundamentalist distortions as any other factor. ~ Pete Enns

It’s not just evangelical fundamentalism and its distortions. 

Progressive Christianity also has its own distortion issues and fundamentalistic bent. It’s identified,in part, by more than a smidgen of judgment, shrouded in smugness.  

9. “Now more than ever, there’s room for leaders.” Seth Godin

I think he’s talking to us, don’t you? 

10. Lots of clowns running for office these days. I am just appalled listening to and reading the nonsense politicians are spouting. Climate change? No clue. Educational equity? Nothing to offer. Inner city issues? Not even on their radar. Middle East issues? No understanding. Anti-abortion fallout? Doesn’t matter. Assault rifles? They’re all in. 

According to a Turkish proverb, ‘‘When a clown moves into a palace it does not make him a king, it just makes the palace a circus.” 

Vote wisely. We’ve already seen what a palace full of clowns can do. Never again.

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Seismic shifts are underway in the church and one of the important underlying questions on the table is “Will future generations find a church worth fighting for?” Decades-long ministry leader, Nancy Beach, along with her daughter, Samantha Beach Kiley, have penned the recent book Next Sunday:An Honest Dialogue About the Future of the Church. They join me on this week’s podcast to help name some of the things that have marked evangelical Christianity for far too long.

If you’ve been invested in the church, or wondering if it’s worth sticking around, this conversation is for you!

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings 7.15.22 

Rumble 1. “I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery. – Brennan Manning

”To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journey is to be a chameleon. To journey and be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.”   ~Mark Nepo 

What do you want? What kind of spirituality do you long for? What’s it based upon? What ‘gods’ do you serve? Where does the real God fit into the picture? What spiritual practices sustain you? Are you a nomad, chameleon, or a pilgrim?

Rumble 2. Jesus’s invitation to us is summed up quite nicely by South African pastor Trevor Hudson. 

“It doesn’t have to be this way. Another kind of life is available to you. You are invited into an intimate pilgrimage to the heart of my Abba Father, who loves you beyond your wildest imaginings. As you keep company with me, my sisters and brothers will become your new family. Over time I will reveal to you God’s personal calling for your life. I will show you how you can partner with me in healing my Father’s world. Along the way I will slowly transform you into the loving, compassionate, and generous person you were meant to be. My powerful Spirit will set you free from whatever enslaves you and will empower you to act on behalf of the common good. Above all, there is nothing that will ever separate you from the Father’s love with which I love you. This is the divine vision I have for your one life on earth.” 

“It doesn’t have to be this way. Available to us is another kind of life.” Is all that worth exploring? I think it is. I say yes. 

3. “We are here to become community. We are on an odyssey with potentiality, and we know it. We have been foreordained to make humanity more humane.” ~ Joan Chittister, OSB

Yah, I bet we can do this. We need to. “MHMH”. Making humanity more humane.

4. “How do people like me who believe entirely in science and reason also believe that prayer can heal and restore? Well, I’ve seen it happen a thousand times in my own inconsequential life. God seems like a total showoff to me, if perhaps unnecessarily cryptic.

When I pray for all the places where we see Christ crucified — Ukraine, India, the refugee camps — I see in my heart and in the newspaper that goodness draws near, through UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, volunteers, through motley old us.

I wake up praying. I say a prayer some sober people told me to pray 36 years ago, because when all else fails, follow instructions. It helps me to not fixate on who I am, but on whose. I am God’s adorable, aging, self-centered, spaced-out beloved. One man in early sobriety told me that he had come into recovery as a hotshot but that other sober men helped him work his way up to servant. I pray to be a good servant because I’ve learned that this is the path of happiness. I pray for my family and all my sick friends that they have days of grace and healing, and I end my prayers, “Make me ever mindful of the needs of the poor.”

Then I put on my glasses, let the dog out to pee and start my day. I will have horrible thoughts about others, typically the Christian right or the Supreme Court, or someone who has seriously crossed me, whose hair I pray falls out or whose book fails. I say to God, as I do every Sunday in confession: “Look — I think we can both see what we have on our hands here. Help me not be such a pill.”

It is miserable to be a hater. I pray to be more like Jesus with his crazy compassion and reckless love. Some days go better than others…God does not have an app for Not Love. God sees beyond each person’s awfulness to each person’s needs. God loves them, as is. God is better at this than I am.” ~ Anne Lamott, NYT Opinion Page

If you haven’t already done so, begin reading her books. 

5. Every time I see or read about political candidates placing an ad that prominently features them holding an assault rifle, or urging people to go hunting for people, or read that they have raffled off a semi-automatic weapon at a rally – whew – I don’t know whether  to cry or puke. Actually, doing both – simultaneously – might be the best thing. And when those candidates invoke Christ in the process, I shudder and wonder why they feel the need to drag Jesus into the cesspool with them. God help us if we help them do that. 

6. The cartoon was of a teacher telling her history class – “Pay attention here so you won’t be as easily fooled as your parents are.”

This reminds me of something Ulysses S. Grant said: “If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”

Who knew Grant was a prophet?

7. “I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: Christian Nationalism is the greatest threat to democracy and the witness of the church in the United States today.” ~ Jemar Tisby

I agree. Christian Nationalism is a long walk through the deep weeds of conspiracy theories and suspect theology. It leads to nothing that’s edifying. 

8. “Fundamentally, what is needed now is an honest self-assessment, a rethinking of how we draw lines, how we choose sides, where we place our loyalty, and what kind of price we’re willing to pay to walk things back and create spaces where democracy has a chance, and where true Christianity can flourish—a Christianity that relies on grace and truth rather than on coercive power to make its witness known.” ~ Kristin DuMez, author of Jesus and John Wayne

Who’s willing to do this kind of honest self-assessment? Lots of years in ministry have taught me that those willing to do that kind of hard work are few and far between. But those few were the ones I could trust. They were the ones who made a difference. 

9. This rush to form super sized athletic conferences, with bigger war chests, and huge media opportunities misses the point.  Bigger isn’t always better. The Big Ten adding UCLA and USC is more about the money than it is about anything else. It’s not about the athletes. It’s not about more kids getting a degree. It’s not about the casual fan who wants nothing more than being loyal to his/her team and  bragging’ rights with his/her neighbor. It’s about the money and it’s going to hit all our pocketbooks. 

10. Watching the January 6th hearings confirms what I already knew. Our Republic barely survived a body blow by a President who cared not a whit about any of us. I’m rooting for the truth to prevail and for maximum jail time for all those who conspired to take our country down. My guess is that just one prison wing might not be enough to hold them all. 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it.

If you’d like to support this podcast you can do so through a gift to PayPal using the email address [email protected].

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy‘s Friday rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings 7.8.22 

1. How then shall we live? With discipline, with joy, with curiosity and wonder, being available to others, allowing others to be available to us and always on the lookout for the Divine amidst the ordinary things of life. That’s a good starting place.

2. We watched a lightweight but satisfying movie entitled “Marry Me” the other night and this was said several times. “If you can sit with the question long enough the answer will find you.” 

Perhaps if we did more sitting and pondering, pausing long enough to consider the questions that seem to have no answers, we’d be better off. Let’s be honest, quick responses to hard questions serves no one well. If we just took the time to stop, to pray, to journal, and to inquire rather than react in the moment, we’d all be better off. 

3. States rushing to enact anti-abortion legislation are not exactly pushing to legislate on behalf of the pregnant women nor are they rushing to provide safety net programs when a child is born. These same states, of course, are all in on arming every living thing with weapons capable of ripping apart a human being. By the way, anti-abortion Oklahoma will be conducting 25 executions over the next few months. I think that’s worthy of a conversation in and of itself. 

I’m reminded once again of something Sr. Joan Chittister said: “I do not believe that just because you are opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, a child educated, a child housed. And why would I think that you don’t? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.”  

She’s spot on. There needs to be a much broader conversation surrounding the significant pro-life issues that still linger. And I hope and pray we can find ways of talking about them. My guess is that those of us who care deeply about life will welcome that conversation, even knowing it will be difficult. And I don’t think that conversation will ever be completed. 

4. “One who reads the words of prayer with great devotion may come to see the lights within the letters … such prayer has great power …” ~ Arthur Green’s translation of a Hasidic mystic teaching. Center for Action and Contemplation 

5. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney will go down in history (if indeed such things will be allowed to be taught in the future) as Republican legislators who took a wildly unpopular stand and risked their life and career for the sake of preserving democracy. Kinzinger isn’t running again.  Cheney, if polls are correct, will lose big this fall. Both reminded us that taking the narrow road, although harrowing, is a good and necessary thing to do. 

6. Greed is certainly one of the things at the heart of what ails the USA. It’s a money grab. Profit rules. It’s disconcerting watching grown men and women squealing the ‘me, me, me, more, more, more’ mantra and in the process revealing their addiction  to narcissism.

7. Dear MAGA Leaders: 

Do you still believe in the separation of church and state? I don’t think you do. You appear to be quite OK with linking a rather twisted version of the Christian faith to a rather twisted version of the State. It’s problematic.

Your followers keep threatening to kill people. Would you please make it a point to call these things out whenever you’re speaking to your people? When you say nothing, or smirk, or give a wink and a nod – the ‘crazies’ just kind of assume you’re with them, condoning their actions. 

Another thing. You’re for law and order but when law and order comes knocking at your door, you throw a hissy fit. That leads me to believe you’re pretty selective about the kind of law and order you’re OK with. 

One more thing. All that misinformation you’re disseminating is doing great damage to the country you purport to love. I think you’re full of it. Get your act together.

Thanks. 

8. I’ve heard people ask why good people said little or nothing during Hitler’s rise to power.  Fear certainly played a big role. Secretly, however, too many applauded the anti-semitism, the attacks on gay people, and the marginalization of the mentally ill. Hitler told them their inner bigot was their true self and they believed him. He got them to believe that violence motivated by the spread of white nationalism pleased God.

Friends, could it be that your decision to not rock the boat during this challenging time makes you complicit in all that’s happening in our country? Could it be that your unwillingness to raise your voice in the midst of great evil just might be the worst thing you can do? Could it be, that despite your protestations, that your inner bigot is being caressed and cared for? Could it be that your deep desire to fit in, to have peace around your holiday table, is actually doing great damage to yourself and others? 

9. On Tuesday, one of my young grandchildren, who attends a day camp with kids from Highland Park, came home talking about the 4th of July that camp mates experienced. One talked about trying to find a place to hide with his parents and one said that he thought the parade had become a race when everyone started running. Ah, the memories. 

Just hours after the July 4 shootings in Highland Park, a man proudly came on on my Facebook thread to proclaim his love for his guns, affection for Jesus, and his deep allegiance to the 2nd amendment. In the midst of that profound tragedy, that’s what was on his mind. 

I blocked him.

He revealed who he really was and I had no stomach for it on that day. Actually, I have no stomach for it on any day. 

On a day when good people were mowed down by a man with an assault rifle, no one should even think about  posting anything about their love affair with guns and their absolute fidelity to a warped version of the second amendment. 

By the way, the thread has been taken down. Good people had contributed to it, saying wise things, and I apologize to them but I couldn’t allow having that particular post on my thread any longer. 

This whole second amendment, gotta have an assault rifle, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun cult, is crazy scary.  And when they wrap it all together with ‘following’ Jesus, it gets even crazier. 

10. “Privilege isn’t about what you’ve gone through. It’s about what you haven’t had to go through.” ~Janaya Khan, BLM Toronto 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it.

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I’m delighted to have Trevor Hudson back on the podcast. An ordained minister in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, he is the author of several books and he is a conference and workshop speaker as well as a retreat leader.

In this episode we talk about his latest book Seeking God: Finding Another Kind of Life With St. Ignatius and Dallas Willard. Trevor, a lifelong seeker of God, was deeply influenced by his friendship with Dallas Willard as well as his thirty years of guiding people through the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius. The book is a beautiful marriage of the influence of Willard and Ignatius. I think you’ll enjoy our conversation.

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This is an audio version of Mike Murphy’s Friday Rumblings. This is a regular post on Facebook that I’ve turned into a podcast. I decided Mike’s words needed a wider audience. You may agree or disagree with what he says, but there is certainly much food for thought contained here. You can friend Mike on Facebook for the printed version or read it below

Rumblings. 7.1.22 

1. In the dystopian world in which the “Handmaid‘s Tale” (thank you Margaret Atwood) exists, the United States has been replaced by the Republic of Gilead, an oppressive, male dominated, theocracy.

In that theocracy women are considered inferior to men and are treated as such. They are not allowed to vote nor are they allowed to read and write. Women who have social justice leanings or buck the system in any way can be legally deemed ‘unwomen’ and be stripped of even the smallest of rights and privileges left open to them. Only Gilead’s perverse and profane version of Christianity is allowed. To practice any other kind of faith is a death sentence. Contraception is verboten. Abortion is retroactively illegal as are second marriages. Women and children are considered to be property, owned and passed down to men only. Only heterosexuality is allowed. Anyone caught in a homosexual act will face gender reorientation therapy or be killed. There is no free press because free speech is illegal.

I don’t want to live in Gilead. That’s why I tremble when I see what’s happening in our country. The building blocks for something abhorrent are being put in place and as long as good people remain silent the walls of Gilead will eventually be built and we’ll be trapped inside of them.

 2. “I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second a good word; and the third, a good deed.” ~  Friedrich Nietzsche

Let’s hear it for simplicity and the application of it.

3. There’s a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that  “if they studied, the Torah would put scripture on their hearts.”

One of them asked, “Why on our hearts, and not in them?”  The rabbi answered, “Only God can put scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your heart breaks, the holy words will fall inside.”  ~ Anne Lamott in Plan B. Further Thoughts on Faith.

And when the holy words fall inside – watch out. Everything changes. Everything. Even us. 

4. “When God put a calling on your life, he already factored in your stupidity.”  ~ Mindful Christianity

Thank you God. This gives me hope for myself and no excuse for not living into God’s original intent for my life.

5. “Everything will be OK in the end. If it’s not OK, it’s not the end.”  ~ John Lennon

Everything is not OK these days. If you can’t see it, I urge you to interrogate yourself and discover why that is. 

6. “for far too long, christians in america used the bible as a weapon and not as a mirror,

the gospel for oppression

instead of liberation, 

the church as a judgment gavel,

not a table of inclusion, 

and Jesus as their mascot

instead of the example.

time to flip the 

tables.” ~ thehappygivers

Former pastor Chad Thibodeaux suggests that it’s “time for the separation of church and hate.” When that happens, the tables will indeed flip. But the problem is that hate, disguised of course, is what fuels the thinking and behavior of far too many who claim to be Christian.  And we don’t appear to be eager and willing to dive into what all that means. That’s why the tables will flip on us. We will call it persecution. We always do. Jesus might call it judgment, requiring a radical course correction. 

7. The audience broke out in applause at the Reagan Presidential  Library this week when Liz Cheney laid it all out:

“We are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before—and that is a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic, and he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who have made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.”

Donald Trump attempted to overturn the presidential election. He attempted to stay in office and to prevent the peaceful transfer of presidential power. He summoned a mob to Washington, He knew they were armed on January 6th. He knew they were angry. And he directed the violent mob to march on the Capitol in order to delay or prevent completely the counting of electoral votes. He attempted to go there with them. And when the violence was underway, he refused to take action to tell the rioters to leave. Instead, he incited further violence by tweeting that the vice president, Mike Pence, was a coward. He said ‘Mike deserves it,’ and he didn’t want to do anything in response to the ‘Hang Mike Pence’ chants. It’s undeniable. It’s also painful for Republicans to accept.” 

She concluded: “The reality that we face today as Republicans, as we think about the choice in front of us, we have to choose because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.” 

8. “I choose to live my life unarmed. I do so because in my long and winding journey, I’ve come to understand that to live gently in a violent world is part of the counterculture of following Christ.” ~ Brian Zahnd.

I also choose to live my life unarmed. In doing so, I choose to live in the countercultural world of Jesus. It’s a pro-life stance. As is my resistance to capital punishment. And war. 

9. In the newest stage version of “To Kill a Mockingbird” Atticus Finch says: “A mob is a place where people go to take a break from their conscience.” 

The character Link Deas, a White man ostracized for marrying a Black woman, smartly observes that “When horror comes to supper, it comes dressed exactly like a Christian.” ~ from an article by Peter Marks, WAPO

When I see mobs, I see a whole lot of conscience deficiency and when I see horror I’m always appalled because it’s so often  justified by a bible verse and a prayer.

10. “Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who faces a primary election Tuesday, says she is “tired” of the U.S. separation of church and state, a long-standing concept stemming from a “stinking letter” penned by one of the Founding Fathers.

Speaking at a religious service Sunday in Colorado, she told worshipers: “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it.”

She added: “I’m tired of this separation of church and state junk that’s not in the Constitution. It was in a stinking letter, and it means nothing like what they say it does.” ~ WAPO

This is from one of the poster children of the religious right. And she’s in Congress. Oh my. See #1. 

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This is a weekly release of the spiritual practice Lectio Divina. I hope you’ll listen and ponder the scripture passage offered and let me know your thoughts. My email address is [email protected]. Also, feel free to share this podcast on your social media or tell a friend about it.

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