by A Faith That Does Justice | Jan 24, 2025 | Blog, The Weekly Word
Costly Grace By The Rev. Craig A. Phillips, Ph.D. In the Gospel of Matthew, we encounter the following difficult saying of Jesus. It is what is often called a “hard saying,” meaning that for the most part it is not something that we who read it want to hear or do....
by A Faith That Does Justice | Jan 18, 2025 | Blog, The Weekly Word
By The Rev. Craig A. Phillips, Ph.D. Many people are committed to working for God in the church. As they go about the tasks at hand, they hope that they are doing what they call “God’s will.” In my experience, persons on Vestries and other committees of the...
by A Faith That Does Justice | Jan 18, 2025 | Blog
Learning Through Accompaniment: Liberation Theology and Re-entry Communities at Fordham University By Sebastian Budinich When teaching liberation theology to undergraduate students at Fordham University, one of the greatest challenges is bridging the gap between...
by A Faith That Does Justice | Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, The Weekly Word
In the Lord’s Prayer we ask God, who is “Lord” —the “loaf-keeper”—of all creation, to give us the “bread” we need each day to live. We do not ask the Lord for more than we need, but only for what we need to survive and flourish.
by A Faith That Does Justice | Dec 5, 2024 | Blog
It is amazing how God reveals himself to us. We never imagined that working to increase the green spaces in our new home, the West End, would be so life-giving. My husband and I started out looking for a way to give back during COVID when we could not volunteer indoors at church as we had done for the past 30 years.