A Gift of Self

Some years ago, I was dashing through the halls of St. John’s School. I was so focused on my next thing that I failed to recognize the children in the hallways. I know that this must seem difficult to do, but somehow, I managed. Before I knew it, I had gone past...

George MacDonald’s Vision

Chapter 11 We are now venturing into the next phase of exploring community. The first ten chapters of our journey were exploring the call to community, but now we must delve into the formation of community, the honing of what exactly Christian community aspires to be...

Chapter 8: A visible reality.

This chapter starts out strong, bringing our intention to Christ’s humanity, in which we are called to his example, but also the example of those who originally followed him. We see throughout Acts the life the apostles lived with one another; as the book points...

Chapter Six: Pentacost

This chapter is drawn from the book, ¨The Community of the Spirit¨ by C. Norman Kraus. He was an observant lifelong Mennonite who served as a missionary, an author, a pastor, and a professor emeritus of Goshen College Indiana. He passed in 2018, and his books cover...

Chapter 5: Brothers, Sisters

This was both an interesting chapter and at times difficult. There were points in reading it I felt real anger which I will address below. The chapter juxtaposes two metaphors commonly used in the New Testament to describe the Church. The first is that used by St Paul...

Chapter 4 “Embodiment”

Chapter 4 is written by Gerhard Lohfink who is a German Catholic priest and theologian. Lohfink was born in 1934. He has written numerous books in both German and English. What does it mean to be the Body of Christ in the modern world? After all, unlike the past,...