Charles Moore from the Bruderhof shares his thoughts on Christ-centered conflict in the first of essays based on our theme of Revolutionary Peacemaking.
Read moreThe End of All Things is at Hand.... by Joe Gatlin
The End of All Things is at Hand.... by Joe Gatlin
Joe from Hope Fellowship shares some reflections on living in the midst of pandemic.
“Let’s Help Each Other Breathe,”
Read moreAbiding in Christ during a Global Crisis
Matt Porter is on the leadership of Hope Fellowship (pictured here with encouraging signs for their neighborhood).
A novel coronavirus has brought great suffering to thousands and will eventually reach us all, and many of our communities have or will soon reconsider many of our practices of gathering together and sharing communion in various ways. We live, love, feel and worship in our bodies, and we are becoming keenly aware that we are putting these bodies at risk by our proximity.
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15th-century image by Jacopo Oddi from the La Franceschina codex depicting Franciscan monks treating victims of the plague/leprosy in Italy
The Avian flu, the Swine flu, Ebola, and now the Coronavirus with the possibility of a world pandemic. It’s in the News everywhere, it is unnerving, markets are shaking, people are scared silly that it will strike them and their loved ones.One has only to recall history to realize that global killers have plagued human civilization. But, surprisingly, history also tells us that where death looms large so do acts of love.
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