If you read one essay, read this:
recent reading: race & unfinished change
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Category Archives: Re-blog
what to say about the Charleston martyrs
three sermons that are worth chewing on this week:
“That your Gospel is more powerful than our hate, more powerful than our despair, more powerful than our pride, and more powerful than our delusions, we give you thanks O God.” Confession (1)
In the face of Emmanuel AME Church, Naming Goliath (2)
“Last week in Charleston, however, was different. To be sure, it’s important not to romanticize or idealize the black church, or any church. All Christian groups are riven by Sin just like all other groups. But the black churches have suffered so extremely, and so unjustly, for so long, that they have achieved a maturity that seems almost superhuman.” “What’s in those lamps?” (3)
turning parishioners into monastics
Yes, I believe that everyone should be a monk, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. Continue reading
the dark side of the glittering city
“On what foundation has this glittering city been built? On whose screams? On whose suffering? On whose innocent blood?”
Over on the Covenant Blog this past week, the other Hylden in my house reflected on our achievement-oriented culture and who’s footing the bill for the all our glamor. (HERE)
image captured by the author; chapel at Mont Saint Michel
quotation of the day: Audrey Hepburn
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others;
for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for
poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
(quotation via, CLICK for more of this lovely lady’s wisdom)
hope of things not seen 
