The Martin Luther King Jr. School of Social and Spiritual Justice and Advocacy. If there were such a school that offered it, I would enroll for a two week intensive course on identifying, advocating and striving for social justice in America and around the world. Does anyone doubt we need this, the world needs this? …
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TERROR, REFUGEES, AND THE MESSIAH WE WELCOME 👣
In December of 2012, Lavone and I were in Bethlehem on what is called Manger Square as the town prepared for its annual lighting of the Christmas tree that marks the official beginning of the Christmas season. The irony of this did not escape us: at or near “ground zero” for the first Advent, are …
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To the Church of my Gay Friend
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 …
To My Gay Friend
My Dear Friend, Recently you wrote several leaders in the FMC one of the most moving letters I have ever received. It chronicled the pain with which you live as a person struggling with same sex attraction/ identity, committed to Christ within the fellowship of our church. I am writing in response, in hopes that …
Missional Mal-Practice
Hardly anyone gets kicked out of the church because they did nothing. Even among the clergy, who are employed, we seldom relieve them for “doing nothing.” Can you imagine members of the church being brought up on charges of inactivity—for doing nothing right or nothing period? Our practice might suggest there could be no such …