“His ministry was a seeming failure; his life appeared to have made no difference; he was a naked, murdered, ineffectual, losing God. But in that weakness and vulnerability, the world would come to know the love of the Abba of the compassionate one.” [B. Manning]

“God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There’s never been a time when God was not like Jesus. We haven’t always known this, but now we do.”

Happy Easter!!!

Jesus is …

“The cross is not what God inflicts upon Jesus in order to forgive, but what God in Christ endures as He forgives.”

“The greatest one among you must be like the youngest, and the leader must be like the servant. Who is greater, the one who sits down to eat or the one who serves? The one who sits down, of course. But I am among you as one who serves.” Jesus

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This! 💕

If you live in Colorado, please contact your state legislators and tell them to vote YES on SCR 24-001. Justice for Abused Children

So proud of my amazing client for speaking out in support of this crucial measure that would allow the people of Colorado the opportunity to amend their constitution to allow abuse survivors to hold predators and the institutions that protect them accountable in a court of law.…

“The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.” Joseph Goebbels

A sobering quote back then…and today. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Such a privilege to be asked by one of my life heroes to write this Forward. Thank you Christa Brown. 💕

This.👇🏽

“By the time of Jesus, Pharisees had devolved into the self-appointed morality police, infected with a poisonous self-righteousness. They’d become a sanctimonious “Take Back Israel for God” movement convinced of their own purity while aiming their censorious ire at “sinners”.”

“The parable of the workers in the vineyard is designed by Jesus to provoke the pharisaical ire of those who believe they deserve the love of God more than others. Or more tellingly, why do we tend to read ourselves into the story as the laborers who worked all day?” Brian Zahnd

“Today, let’s remember to pay attention to the little ones around us. Seek them out. Lift them up. Give them the grace of being seen, heard, and respected. Let us alert the overlooked to the dignity that is theirs by virtue of being a child of God.”

This.

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“I know how much effort it requires to be a fundamentalist. It can get tiring. You must constantly fight not only the skepticism of those around you, but the doubts that arise within yourself. Mainly fundamentalists evoke for me a sense of sadness.” [Harvey Cox]

Vladimir Putin is a murderer. A dictator. He kills people who speak out against him. Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Ukraine. The Republican Party I once knew would oppose a leader like Putin with everything it had. Now the GOP is in Putin’s thrall. It’s horrific.