There Are Some Things To Die For

If Every Christian Family Brought In A Child Who Needed A Family We Would Put The Foster Care System Out Of Business.

Someday War And Poverty Will Be Crazy And We Will Wonder How The World Allowed Such Things To Exist.

Jesus Is Challenging That When Addressing "who Is Your Neighbor" And He Has A Lot Of Hard Things To Say About Family, "unless You Hate Your Own Family You Are Not Going To Be A Disciple." He Is Challenging The Limits Of Our Compassion And Our Love As If Someone's Kid Suffers It Should Be As Devastating To Us As If It Were Our Own Kid. That Is What The Early Church Said.

The Monastic Folks Have The Spirit Of Being In The World But Not Of The World, Sort Of Peculiar People Who Have Gone To The Desert To Live On The Margins Of The Empire.

There Are Some Things To Die For But None To Kill For.