Whosoever Living
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. … It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to
Tag Archives: Henri Nouwen
Keep Choosing God, and the Rest of Your Life Comes Into Focus
Choosing God: For the glory of God When your eating, drinking, working, playing, speaking, or writing is no longer for the glory of God, you should stop it immediately, because when you no longer live for the glory of God, you begin to live for
Thank God We Don’t Have To ‘Like’ Our Enemies!
We should be happy that [Jesus] did not say, “Like your enemies.” It is almost impossible to like some people. (Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love) I was in third grade when I acquired my first enemy. Her name was Linda. She was a
The Salvation of Silence
My life is a listening, [God’s] is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence my silence is my salvation. (Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude) When I was in high school my class took the Armed
Discovering the Unshakable
The highest use of a shaken time is to discover the unshakable. (Harry Emerson Fosdick, A Faith for Tough Times) As GLBT Christians we live in a shaken time. As the 20th century draws to a close and a new millennium dawns, the instability of
Renewing Our Strength
It’s really amazing the energy and fervour with which our community is attacked for our faith. What is more amazing is that, after all these years, we still hear these strident voices. Usually we manage to shut out particular frequencies to which we are subjected
Forget Love! What About God’s Wrath?
… put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:8-9) A critic of Whosoever wrote to me recently