“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”

-Martin Luther King Jr. (Strength to Love, Harper & Row, 1963, p. 14)

Monday, August 9, 2010


Mother Brown testifying at the Church of the Blessed Trinity (Centerville, VA)

There is something here I envy.  I sense a release in such expression like a dance which cannot be explained, but flows from the heart.  I honestly cannot understand what Sister Brown is saying, but I feel it.  In an anglo Mennonite community where we don’t even “amen” a moving point in the Sunday service, we have something to learn from such deeply expressed gratitude.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

As citizens of Christ’s kingdom, we must recognize that all people are our brothers and sisters in God’s family. We would want the best for our family. We would want good education and health care for them and we would willingly help in any way possible for that to happen. If they are being victimized and oppressed we would move heaven and earth to speak out against such evil. If dictators do not respect their rights, we will not stand by and say it’s none of our business. It is our business to be where there is pain and suffering and to oppose injustice with all our strength. Our brothers and sisters are in trouble and we cannot enjoy peace if we do nothing.

-Archbishop Desmond Tutu