My dear brothers and sisters, A couple weeks ago I wrote a letter to one of your members who is gay and in deep pain. (You can read it at: https://davidkendall.fmcusa.org/2015/11/18/to-my-gay-friend/ ) You know him, but not as he is, not as he truly is, and you are not aware of his painful struggle. You not …
Category Archives: Current Affairs
This is our Story, our Song
I’ve been thinking about that classic gospel song, Fannie Crosby, Blessed Assurance, especially its chorus, which I would adjust slightly, as follows: this is our story, this is our song, praising our savior all the day long! I’d would suggest that in ways far beyond what Crosby could have foreseen, this chorus is so apt, …
A Prayer for Charleston and Beyond
Oh God, who has identified with us all as Immanuel–God with us, who was dead but is alive forever more, who is with us as we pass through the death-shadows, who is with us the same now as ever, whose being-with-us will embraces us in the lowest depths, and lifts us to the highest heights, Have mercy upon us, upon our …
WHEN ISIS KILLS
Last evening we were moved to read of the plight of followers of Jesus who suffer and die at the hands of ISIS. This particular report came from a church official in country who plead for Christians everywhere to help them. As we have often read over the last year, people who bear the name …
A RESURRECTION—SO WHAT?
The Jesus story declares that the human story does not end with a death! To be sure, death looms largely within the story. Along the way we read of people dying, and as the story moves forward Jesus begins to make ominous predictions of his own death. The simple, sad, and undeniable fact of life …