Browsing the blog archives for January, 2012

God Pukes at Gays?

Does God vomit at the thought of gay and lesbian people? That’s the graphic image that O’Neal Dozier, pastor of Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach Florida, uses. It’s radically different from the one that many of us know of a God of inclusion and love. Not vomiting but smiling on us – all of [...]

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Is Good News Underrated?

Watching the news is often an exercise in testing your endurance about crises, disasters and heart-breaking stories.  The tsunami of bad news buries the abundance of good news stories that exist. If we are what we surround ourselves with then paying attention to the good news stories alters our experience of being alive. A man [...]

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MLK: Envy or the Beloved Community?

The “politics of envy” in the United States is political fodder masking a truth that Dr. Martin Luther King pointed to almost 50 years ago. He said his entire work pointed to one goal – the creation of a “beloved community” of Americans. His prescient words invite a new conversation about who we are. The [...]

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Wake Up Call! – Appreciative Delight

  APPRECIATIVE DELIGHT Appreciation affects the flow of your day. Coffee, the morning paper and silence used to frame the start of my day. It was sacrosanct time until a friend said, “You realize that you’re really grumpy if anyone interrupts your routine. Is that how you want to begin your day? ” I could [...]

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