Journal

Tag: Kingdom Action

Reflections of a Returning Pilgrim.

by: Katie Kallam Going into my pilgrimage to the Holy Land, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I knew that I would encounter holy places, sites where Jesus walked, where he lived and died, but I knew very little about the modern Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I...

Easter Monday Devotional

By John G. Gardner, Coracle Fellow ’17 NOTES FROM A PILGRIMAGE Several weeks ago, I had the privilege to be part of a pilgrimage jointly led by Telos and Coracle to Israel and Palestine.  Rather than only visiting the holy sites connected with Jesus’ life, we...

Breaking the Cycle

by Sharon Hoeck, Telos Group Office Manager At the beginning of last month, we gathered with many of you to talk about disrupting the status quo of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What does it look like to try to understand a reality that can be described by...

Pray and Be Strange in These Days

“Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.”  Neh. 5.19 Pray and Be Strange for God’s sake, your good, and others…and expect costly opposition A few years ago I had the opportunity to make my first trip to China, to Shanghai.  Two things...

One Fool’s Offering. What’s Yours?

“Originality consists in returning to the origin.” – Antoni Gaudí I hadn’t heard of Antoni Gaudí before spring of 2004 when I first visited Barcelona, but you can’t miss him once you’re there. Of the many works this master architect designed, his pièce de...

Slum as Sacrament – A Jerusalem in Kathmandu

The slum of Danaseri in Kathmandu, Nepal is a sacred place on par with the island of Iona in Scotland, St. Peter’s in Rome, Jerusalem, and Lourdes. Danaseri doesn’t look like much at the first glance. It looks like a place you wouldn’t want to go to or spend much time...

Jesus’ Hands to God’s Beloved In Nepal

To the American mind, the caste system is almost impossible to comprehend.  Because of our Declaration of Independence it is engrained (though inconsistently applied) in our national psyche that ‘all men are created equal’.  In Nepal because of Hinduism, this is not...
On Race In America and A Christian Response

On Race In America and A Christian Response

For those who weren’t able to make it to the February 1 Soundings Seminar at Restoration Anglican Church in Arlington, VA, we have provided links below to a “video” (an audio-only recording of the entire evening set to still images from the evening)...

WWJD? Love all the way.

The power of God was shown most clearly at the resurrection of Jesus.  God defeated death. The love of God was shown most clearly on the cross of Christ.  God poured out his life for us.  And Jesus said, “Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another”...

Welcome to 2017!

2017 is going to be a big, strange year, full of challenges, with much uncertainty.  You feel it.  We all do.  I do, deeply. And just like it is true at the beginning of every new year, the world needs more people who are alive and strong in God to powerfully be his...

Advent in a Divided Season

By: Todd Deatherage As 2016 moves to its end, many wish it had all been just an unpleasant dream. Our experiences this year, as in most, teach us that things are not right in the world, not as they should be. An ugly American election season has exposed deep fault...

End of Year 2016 Fundraising Letter from Bill

Dear Friends and Fellow Pilgrims, I’m not good at cutting to the chase.  I’m not good at being brief.  I use words (and, sometimes, as you will see in my PS at the end, YouTube videos!) to help folks to see what I see, know what I know, celebrate the breadth that I...

Anglicans for Justice: It’s Who We Are

Earlier this year in Austin, the ACNA launched the Matthew 25 Gathering with its inaugural conference titled “Anglican Justice and Mercy-Contending for Shalom”.  A group of over 60 practitioners and leaders from around the ACNA who are engaged in...