I'm Just Not Convinced That

When We Were Starting Our Community A Bunch Of Older Benedictine Nuns Said To Us, "if You Have Any Questions Or Want To Pick Our Brains, Please Do - We've Been Doing Community For About 1,500 Years Together So We've Learned A Few Things."

It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice Of The Death Penalty From Our History Around Race And Slavery, And Specifically, Lynching. Where Lynchings Were Happening 100 Years Ago Is Where Executions Are Happening Today. And That's A Haunting And Eerie Thing.

Jesus Taught Us A Prayer Of Community And Reconciliation, Belonging To A New People Who Have Left The Land Of 'me'.

Maybe We Are A Little Crazy. After All, We Believe In Things We Don't See. The Scriptures Say That Faith Is "being Sure Of What We Hope For And Certain Of What We Do Not See" (heb. 11:1). We Believe Poverty Can End Even Though It Is All Around Us. We Believe In Peace Even Though We Hear Only Rumours Of Wars. And Since We Are People Of Expectation, We Are So Convinced That Another World Is Coming That We Start Living As If It Were Already Here.

I Am Sorry That So Often The Biggest Obstacle To God Has Been Christians. Christians Who Have Had So Much To Say With Our Mouths And So Little To Show With Our Lives. I Am Sorry That So Often We Have Forgotten The Christ Of Our Christianity.