February 2012
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I was all alone and those [segregationist] people were screaming, and suddenly I saw God smiling and I smiled…. A woman was standing there [near the school door], and she shouted at me ‘Hey you little nigger, what you smiling at?’ I looked right at her face and I said, ‘At God.’ Then she looked up at the sky, and then she looked at me, and she didn’t call me any...
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We are against war because it is contrary to the spirit of Jesus Christ, and the...
– Dorothy Day (via catholicworker)
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http://people.biola.edu/thomasc/Jesus-Affluence.pdf... →
Read this article by Thomas Crisp on his reading of Jesus’ love command and tell me what you think.
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…it is monstrous for one to live in luxury, while many are in want.
— Clement of Alexandria
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Do not wonder that a man can become an imitator of God. He can, if he is willing. For it is not by ruling over his neighbor, or by seeking to hold the supremacy over those that are weaker, or by being rich, and showing violence towards those that are inferior, that happiness is found; nor can any one by these things become an imitator of God. But these things do not at all constitute His majesty....
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“When a man of peace is killed by a man of war, he gives a light.”
- Wendell Berry
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Just stumbled across these fine folks - Bicycle Coffee Company.
They roast their own beans and deliver fair trade coffee to San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. Pretty cool concept and story. I’m headed to San Francisco this weekend, so maybe I will see them out and about!
Check out their website here.
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A Celtic Prayer:
Bless O Lord the food we are about to eat, and we pray you O God may it be good for our body and our soul and if there is any poor creature hungry or thirsty walking on the road may God send him in to us so that we can share the good with him - just as he shares his gifts with all of us.
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“If you don’t care for the poor and oppressed folk, then you’re not a biblical Christian.”
- Ron Sider
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I always say that if we believe terrorists are beyond redemption, we can rip out...
– Shane Claiborne (via strengthlikelions)
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