Cross Purposes

“In baptism we have all been called to be ministers and proclaimers and activists in a movement to heal the world.”

“If our Christian story is to mean anything to us today, if we are to take hope from a light that shines in our world, we have to interpret that light for our own time.”

“That light enables us to begin again, to change ourselves and begin a do-over, not as hopeless adults resigned to the dispiriting ways of a sinful world, but as children of God, newly adopted, newly endowed with a sense of fresh possibilities.”

“Over the entire world, we are all meant to be home in God’s kingdom, and we are called to make this earth a livable home for everyone who’s here.”

“Human love and God’s love: in so many ways, and in this old story that we tell ourselves every year, we come to understand that human love and God’s love are fully entwined with each other; we come to understand that both of them together are what makes us both fully human and also the children of God.”

“We can hold fast to our faith that the prophets’ vision is possible, it can be realized, at least in part, in real time, in the real world, just as Jesus the Christ came into being in real time in the real world.”

"The actual words in Isaiah, however beautiful, are about the big issues of the world, about politics and economics, about oppression and cruelty. The words of today’s psalm and reading from Isaiah are about justice, about righteousness."

“Celebrating Christ the King will have to be about a Christ who became a king in weakness, who became a king at the moment of agonizing death, who became a king through the mystery of renewed life in the resurrection.”

“We remain faithful to God’s story, God’s kingdom, God’s dream of peace and abundance shared in justice.”

“Today’s word tells us that the children of God are the children of the resurrection. If we are all children of God and children of the resurrection, then we are all children of hope.”