I hadn’t seen my sister Joy for more than a few minutes the previous Christmas. My wife and our infant son had arrived an hour before she and her family had to leave to spend […]
Tag: war
God & the injustice of war
War is evil. There is no greater source of human injustice in the world. War robs more from the poor than any thief. War kills more people than any mass murderer. War displaces more people […]
Psalm 120
A rendering of Psalm 120, a prayer of helplessness by someone longing for peace but living among people clamoring for war and whose words are violent.
Psalm 60
A rendering of Psalm 60, a frustrated prayer of feeling abandoned not too long before God dealt with everything David was struggling with.
Psalm 46
A rendering of Psalm 46, which rests is the security of God’s presence in the middle of political turmoil.
Among quarreling neighbors
One Sunday we came back from worship to discover that one of our neighbors had torn down the short fence between our properties and replaced it with a taller, uglier fence. There had been no warning. […]