Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

In the spring of 1936, Howard Thurman, the African American Theologian and Pastor, met Mahatma Gandhi. Thurman had been in India for several months, travelling the country giving lectures about Christianity and American segregation. Gandhi was now several decades into working to free India from the rule of the British Empire and to undo theContinueContinue reading “Were you there when they crucified my Lord?”

The morning after…

This morning, we have the bitter gift of certainty. The winner is clear. For many of us, the outcome is like a grave diagnosis. We arrived at the doctor uncertain of what is happening to us and we left with an answer we didn’t want. While the answer gave us clarity, it opened up a thousand more questions and choices about time, expense, pain, and survival.

So what do we do on the morning after?