morepraxis

“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is a protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life” Nelson Mandela

This is a brilliant prophetic Leunig from last Sat The Age.
(in case you cant read it)
If I were a refugee
What a nice one I would be.
Not in need of gliding.
My traumas would be character building.
 
The wars that overturned my life;
Atrocities and endless strife
And persecution hateful,
Would have taught me to be grateful.
 
I’d have no breaking point [...]

I am no longer my own, but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will.
Put me to doing, put me to suffering.
Let me be employed for you or laid aside for you,
exalted for you or brought low for you.
Let me be full, let me be empty.
Let me have all things, let [...]

?the popular and domesticated Jesus… has become little more than a chrome-plated hood ornament on the guzzling Hummer of Western civilisation…?
Brian McClaren, Everything Must Change

“True evangelical faith cannot lie dormant.
It clothes the naked.
It feeds the hungry.
It comforts the sorrowful.
It shelters the destitute.
It serves those that harm it.
It binds up that which is wounded.
It has become all things to all people.”
- Menno Simons

Great post over at shauninmann.com in regards to a passage from Vonnegut?s Slaughterhouse-Five:
It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield [...]

This made me chuckle and then feel quite challenged…..
 
“The matter is quite simple. The bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any [...]

Ignatius of Antioch (d. 110)
Epistle (110)
“And pray ye without ceasing in behalf of other men. For there is in them hope of repentance that they may attain to God. See, then, that they be instructed by your works, if in no other way. Be ye meek in response to their wrath, humble in opposition [...]