A fellow blogger asked the question, “What song do you want to be remembered by?” My tastes are too eclectic to name just one. However, I have one in particular that needs to be played at my funeral…
Category: Simplicity
“We have to become better people by fundamentally transforming the conditions of our living together.” – Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
“The common Christian understanding that Jesus came to save us by a cosmic evacuation plan is really very individualistic, petty, and even egocentric. It demands no solidarity with anything except oneself. We whittled the great Good News down into what Jesus could do for us personally and privately, rather than celebrating God’s invitation to participate in God’s universal creative work.” – Fr. Richard Rohr
“Democracy will not come / Today, this year / Nor ever / Through compromise and fear.” – Langston Hughes, “Democracy”
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“It is useless to dream of reforming society without a corresponding change in our own lives.” – Bishop Hélder Câmara
Be the change!
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