Posts Tagged ‘Oppression’

Ode to the Blue Notes

We’re inclined to think that life is like jazz: Random, but somehow, making strange and beautiful music. So much of life doesn’t jive like cool jazz riffs. The harmony is lacking and the beat is off. Maybe we imagine God somewhere up beyond outer space, holding the earth–and all things–in...

May 11th, 2012 | Essays, Music | Read More

Occupy Ourselves

Occupy Wall Street is gaining steam and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. With the amount of coverage the movement is receiving, it seems numbingly redundant to say it has spread all over the world, springing up in cities from Boston to Sydney. The movement stands for a variety of...

February 21st, 2012 | Social Justice | Read More

Locating an Indigenous Spirituality

The spiritual life I had spent many years trying to locate within the walls of churches and on my knees in earnest prayer, was primarily one of the other world—the beyond. The spirit that I have found is not located beyond, but in the soil right beneath my feet. The new life it calls me to does not...

November 8th, 2011 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More

People with Real Problems

I could go to any church that claims faith in Christ, mention a need, and see the majority of the congregation come alive with a desire to meet it. We are hungry to fulfill a desire, a desire I believe didn’t come of our own will. We were meant to help. Unfortunately, most of my own problems amount...

July 1st, 2010 | Featured, Social Justice | Read More