hey john et al,

I've been absent from this blog for a long time.. but I'm hoping to stop by a bit more often.
blessings to all in the new year!

Here's a provocative thought from Bonhoeffer..

"During these years the Church has fought for self-preservation as though it were an end in itself, and has thereby lost its chance to speak a word of reconciliation to humanity and to the world at large. So our traditional language must perforce become powerless and remain silent, and our Christianity will be confined to praying and doing right to our human brothers and sisters. Christian thinking, speaking and organizing must be reborn out of this praying and this action.. It will be a new language.. the language of a new righteousness and truth, which proclaims the peace of God with humankind and the advent of his kingdom. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Letters and Papers from Prison"