Posts tagged Advent
Working Together to Birth Love Anew • Trabajar juntos y juntas para hacer renacer el amor
Working Together to Birth Love Anew • Trabajar juntos y juntas para hacer renacer el amor

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Gail here on behalf of your Board of Directors of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Bautistas por la Paz, bringing you Advent greetings, a brief year end reflection and an announcement. I don’t know about you but this whole year has felt like the season of Advent. A waiting in the dark for light to be birthed once again. So from this year-long preparation, what do we want to remember from it?

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Gail aquí en nombre de su Junta Directiva de Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, Bautistas por la Paz, trayendo saludos de Adviento, una breve reflexión de fin de año y un anuncio. No sé ustedes, pero todo este año se ha sentido como la temporada de Adviento. A esperar en la oscuridad a que la luz vuelva a nacer. Entonces, de esta preparación de un año, ¿qué queremos recordar de ella?

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The Journey to Bethlehem
The Journey to Bethlehem

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It was 2006, and that journey took me to “El Jardin” (the Garden) a Tsotsil community in the mountains of Chiapas to share Christmas with Pastor Antonio as a missionary working with International Ministries. Alongside our brothers and sisters, we sang to Jesus. Wrapped up by the unhurried and rhythmic Mayan accent we talked and shared tamales and black coffee. Under the zinc roof and dirt floor of Antonio’s wooden shack house with only a table, several chairs and a hammock for furniture; there were no shopping malls, no “ajoro,” (rush), no gifts, no lights, no Christmas tree. There was only the traditional woodstove to warm us and the light of the Milky Way shining in the sky. That Christmas night was a different one! One where I end up in a different place as a human being.

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¡Próximamente!

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A Meditation for Advent 2014
A Meditation for Advent 2014

“I’m in no mood for Advent, “ I thought, glimpsing the purple banner emblazoned with the candle of hope. From Freetown to Ferguson, mothers are weeping over the bloody bodies of their children. From Ayotzinapa to New York City, fathers are crying out over the murder of their daughters and their sons. Children sob for their parents. Parents wail for their children. Widows and orphans are being created day by day by bloody day. How can we speak now of hope, peace, love, and joy? And yet...

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When Justice and Peace Kiss
When Justice and Peace Kiss

The incidents in Ferguson and New York have not only highlighted longstanding racial tensions, but have also laid bare the disparities facing black citizens throughout our country. While these cases raise questions about the prevalence of racial profiling and police misconduct, they also reach far beyond that, stressing ongoing issues of economic inequality, housing discrimination and unequal access to adequate education. And it rises from the deep fear and despair that clings to walls of inner-city tenements, and reeks from the tar paper shacks that still dot the Old South.

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