Faith Is Not Accepting The World As

We Give People Fish. We Teach Them To Fish. We Tear Down The Walls That Have Been Built Up Around The Fish Pond. And We Figure Out Who Polluted It.

So Even As We See The Horror Of Death, May We Be Reminded That In The End, Love Wins. Mercy Triumphs. Life Is More Powerful Than Death. And Even Those Who Have Committed Great Violence Can Have The Image Of God Come To Life Again Within Them As They Hear The Whisper Of Love. May The Whisper Of Love Grow Louder Than The Thunder Of Violence. May We Love Loudly.

The Question For Me Is Not Are We Political, But How Are We Political? We Need To Be Politically Engaged, But Peculiar In How We Engage.

The Question Becomes Not Just How To Accumulate More, But How To Covet Less.

There Is Extreme Poverty In Appalachia, Where I Was, And Increasingly Poverty Is Not Just An Urban Thing.