On Monday, March 24, the following article ran on the editorial page of the Richmond Times Dispatch: “So far, this newspaper’s year-long series on creating a more dynamic dominion has focused on education. We turn now to mobility. And while that might seem a change of subject, in one important sense it is not: Mobility…
What’s the deal with stewardship? It’s an interesting word. Steward. Sometimes, it’s a noun. Less often, it’s a verb. How does this ancient concept apply to lives lived in this millennium? As a concept, should it apply to me as I work through my discernment? How? It’s an interesting idea. It involves action without ownership….
Anybody who has made it to adulthood has had some experience of the fundamental precariousness of life. Some have had much more than others. It is as if you were standing in a forest and heard the wind whistle behind you and looking, you saw that you were on the edge of a steep cliff….
…and he is like Jesus. Neither statement is to be taken for granted, and both are very significant for life in this generation. The knowledge/sense/preference/belief that there is a God is a choice. That is to say, there is no absolutely compelling evidence in the same way that you could say, for example, “There is…
I am working on coming out of the closet as a beneficiary of prayer. It is not easy. I do not like admitting publicly that I have been temporarily disabled. But I have been, and it’s been pretty hard to hide. Seven weeks ago now the pain in my back and leg became so excruciating…
The purpose of life is most of all in what God does, secondly in what we do together, and least of all in what we do as our own achievement. Our American individualism turns those three things around. People search mightily for achievement on their own, making it the first goal, and then are stunned…
The Rev. B. P. Campbell Speech at Award as Peacemaker of the Year Richmond Peace Education Center May 17, 2013 I want to thank all of you with the Richmond Peace Education Center for honoring me with this award. I can honestly say that I have never seen myself as a Peacemaker, and it is…
“Oh God, your sea is so great and my boat is so small.” This prayer of Breton fishermen speaks of human life directly and clearly. It has become the motto of the Children’s Defense Fund and is the title of a new book by the fund’s founder, Marian Wright Edelman. Admiral Hyman Rickover had it…
Whoa. Something happened. I don’t know what, but I do know when. A couple of weeks ago I had this dream. I dreamt I found a field. I left the road I was on, and turned into this field. I was excited — because I knew that somewhere in this particular field, there was treasure….
It’s hard to find a really good way to celebrate a secular Easter. The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ are not the stuff of simple and lightweight symbols. Easter transmits a complex message, transported through time through a sacrament of blood-wine and body-bread on an altar derived from a sacrificial cult. The best the…
