It is Jesus who came to meet you in the streetBrought you in his home, took off his clothesSo that he could bow down and wash your feetJesus was naked where Adam was ashamedRemoving what of this world stuck to your feetThe grime, the sludge, the remnants of the pastAll that was unwanted in the …
I feel that I respond to God’s presence in the world. Where two are three are gathered in his name, he will be there. I show up to make the one into a two, or the two into a three so that God can be there.
Progressive Politics, Spirituality, and Parenting Angela and I have started a new podcast. where we invite you to a conversation about progressive politics, spirituality and parenting. In this episode, Angela and Niels talk about their ideas for this podcast, and why we feel it is necessary. There is very little space for parents to discuss …
Dear Kai, It seems that there are two different stories presented about being a man in our day and age. The first one we see in the media, on t.v. mostly and if you’re unfamiliar with it, the story is quite simple. The husband is at home a bumbling foo; and the other has to …
Erich Fromm wrote The Art of Loving.
Dear Kai, Several years ago I did an exercise in a class where we drew a box on the black board and we called it the “Be a man” box. (I learned this exercise from the sociologist Michael Kimmel.) The idea is that the class identifies what they think of when they hear the phrase …
