Hope For The Journey – A Conversation on Religion and Democracy
So an historian and a bishop walk into a room. Sounds like the beginning of a joke doesn’t it? But it’s not. Just a few days ago the historian Jon Meacham and Bishop Michael Curry sat down for a conversation on Religion and Democracy. I recommend it to you all. It is just under an hour in length, but well worth the time. As we look for Hope for the Journey in our time this will offer you a hopeful way forward. This link will lead you to an article from the Episcopal News Service. Scroll down through the article and you will find the video.
– Father George
“I’m trying to convey a feeling that’s true.”
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on songwriting and the art of reading Scripture: “Sometimes, it is easier to find answers about how things work than to discover why things are the way they are… [Scripture] doesn’t always provide us clear answers, but it does help us ask better questions.”
Continue readingThe Second Coming
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on one of W. B. Yeats’ timeless poems: “In this uncertain time—a time where the world, once again, seems to be falling apart at the seams—what does it look like to welcome the hope of the Prince of Peace and Lord of Lords?”
Continue readingHope for the Journey: A Season of Hope
If ever there was a season of hope it is Advent.
Continue readingA Season of Joy and… Repentance?
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier reflects on the gospel readings in Advent: “To receive the Christ child… means to enjoy the gift of God-with-us, God’s ever-present grace in our lives. It also means, however, listening to the prophets who prepared the way by calling us to repentance: pushing us to return to the way of love, calling us out of slavery to sin and into the freedom of the Good News.”
Continue readingSeeing Ourselves as God Sees Us
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Father George reflects on preparing to enter the Season of Advent.
Continue readingA Penny for Affordable Housing
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Fr. Javier shares his remarks at ONE Wake’s first public assembly with candidates for Cary Town Council.
Continue readingWho gets to be a Saint?
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Mother Alice reflects on the different definitions of sainthood.
Continue readingTogether Again: Gathering in Pumpkin Circles
In this week’s Hope for the Journey, Father George reflects on what a fantastic evening we had this past Sunday as over 100 gathered for the Halloween “Drive-in” Pizza and Movie Night.
Continue reading“Hope is a crucial survival trait.”
In this week’s Hope for the Journey: what can Jane Goodall and Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman teach us about hope?
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