What's Going On

We might be better equipped to know what's going on if we stopped bracketing religion as an entity unrelated and somehow divorced from our everyday choices. We could recognize that a Mercedes commercial, for example, is a call to worship. -from The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark

Motto of the Kingdom Coming

Create the condition you describe. -San Francisco Diggers Motto

The Kingdom Coming and Rites of Spring

[There is] a constant friction between what you see, and what you want to achieve and things that you know are right. That rub is what creates the pain and the emotion and then there's the hope that maybe you can overcome it, make it happen. It's the same politically and personally - to me it's all one issue because the same problems keep coming up over and over again - lack of commitment, lack of caring. -Guy Picciotto, lead singer of post-hardcore band Rites of Spring, describing what his music hopes to address

Works of Love

Only when it is a duty to love, only then is love eternally secure. -from Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard

Tradition

The best way to preserve tradition is to have a baby, not to wear your father's old hat. -Pablo Picasso

Seek Ye First

“If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.” -William Law

Church and Kingdom

Alfred Loisy the 19th century historian was right in saying that Jesus came proclaiming the Kingdom of God but what appeared was the Church. The disappointment was and continues to be severe. But the great irony is that today we alleviate our disappointment with the contemporary Church by pointing back to the New Testament Church --which was the great disappointment to begin with! Our restless discontent should not be over the distance between ourselves and the first century Church but over the distance between ourselves and the Kingdom of God to which the Church then and now is the witness. -from Freedom for Ministry by Richard Neuhaus