even in an election year, we are called to practice compassion, hospitality and abundance

Parker Palmer reflects on the Incarnation

"...So Mary sings out her vision for a world turned upside down. She sings a song about the power of love. This is a song made to sing on top of the ramparts, a song meant to sing in the streets of Cairo or on the docks of Seattle or in Zucotti Park or on the steps of Trinity Wall Street. Mary sings the song of her foremother Hannah, a song she teaches her boy Jesus. And when he grows up to sing it, it comes out as the Beatitudes..."

Pastor John Helmiere on police on the power of unconditional love

From Brian's Naked Theology Column at Patheos

Featured in the Clergy Journal issue on Preaching, Nov/Dec 2011.

an Advent season meditation

an excerpt from Claiming the Beatitudes: Nine Stories from a New Generation

A 2011 Beatitudes Summer Fellow who served at Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C.