Think about the people you know who are in terrible pain right now. Violence, death, loss, trauma, or physical or mental illness has touched them, even destroyed them. If they should come to worship, is there an appropriate context for them to acknowledge their pain before God?
Formations 07.10.2022: Vengeance
July 3, 2022 by
Violence begets violence. Hopefully we all understand that. But we can say at least a little bit more. According to Brazilian Catholic archbishop, Hélder Câmara, we can draw a distinction between three phases of violence.
Formations 11.19.2017: Faith and Violence
November 12, 2017 by
Herod Agrippa I was the grandson of Herod the Great and a nephew of Herod Antipas. The book of Acts remembers him mainly as a persecutor of the early church. Somewhat like the Apostle Paul, this king’s zeal for the law was apparently what drove him to persecute the church.
A Prayer about Violence
July 12, 2016 by
O God,
Our society is so violent. Why are people so afraid? Why do they assume the worst of others and see them as threats?