Topic: Anger

Healthy spirituality requires an honesty about our experience of pain and confusion in the real world, and that means that lamentation is a part of healthy prayer.

Hope for our troubled world requires turning anger into tears, resentment into prayers, and financial power into generosity.

In the face of social breakdown and environmental catastrophe, we are called, not to angry protest, but to creative expressions of love, compassion, and hospitality.

The measure of the value of our worship is the measure of the transformation of our lives into imitations of the love and kindness of Jesus.

God is most likely and able to work through those who accept their own weakness and don’t try to forcefully assert their own power and influence.

In order for men to step up and end the scourge of domestic violence, they need to experience themselves as loved and valued, liberating them to love others.

While many have a passive-aggressive relationship with God, the gospel gives us a vision of God that liberates us to live freely, expansively and joyously.

In times of rupture, we, like Isaiah, can pour out our words, images and even anguished songs as we try to gather up the pieces and make some sense.

When we read scripture through the eyes of Jesus, we find a way free of the violent abusive images of God in some of the ancient texts.

Inviting Christ into your dwelling means being renovated from the inside out.

Faithful lament, even enraged and despairing lament, takes us close to the heart of God, though we usually can’t perceive God when we are there.

Jesus shows us that even though there might be many things that don’t seem right to us, we would be wise to let many of them go and only fight the battles that really matter.