Adventus (On Isaiah 64)

People scurry here and there
walking briskly, more times than not, aimlessly against,
not recognizing that for which they long.
In the cities it is this way.
We keep walking.
She cuts more cebolla to put in the caldo,
beans and tortillas are in the air- kilos used to weigh so much more
when he was here,
her son now ill, she [...]

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Acceptance (or Coming Out of the Closet)

What better place to come out of the closet than California. . . I’m not referring to my sexuality; this post doesn’t concern my sex of choice, yet my church of choice. For those that have known me for the past, say 5 years, know that I’ve been on a roller coaster ride with [...]

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Relinquishing and Receiving

This post is one in the making. It is a story of my personal and spiritual transformation and where I am now- actually a subsequent post will talk about “where I am now”. This is taken from a “reflection essay” that was part of my application process for Andover Newton Theological School (part [...]

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Quote of the Day #14

If communities mediate revelation from God, surely different communities in different circumstances will mediate different disclosures.
If revelation is mediated through community, revelation will reflect the truth available to that community in its life, memory, and experience, and will tend therefore to be partisan disclosure.
-Walter Brueggemann

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Good-Bye Tlalpan

What started out for Yuli and I as a grueling search for a church home that began in 2007 ended in warm communion. It’s been an immense pleasure to work with the Brednich family, the Henderson family, the Ortega family, the Calderón family, as well as the rest of the bunch this past year. [...]

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Quote of the Day #12

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
-1 John 3:17-18

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The Refugee

This June 20th is World Refugee Day. A day which has been set aside so that we may think in some 42 million uprooted people (1 in every 50 persons) throughout our world. Hopefully, this thinking will lead to some form of action on our part. The country that currently has [...]

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Quote of the Day #11

From the greatness and beauty of created things the Creator of them is by analogy perceived.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:5

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Prop 8, The Sexual Deviant, and The Bible: An Alternative Christian Interpretation

What is deviant? Deviant is anything that we deem, by our own standards of reality, not to fall into the category of “normal.” Cambridge Dictionary defines it as:
describes a person or behaviour that is not usual and is generally considered to be unacceptable.
Some past examples of deviancy in our society are: a woman voting, an [...]

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Quote of the Day #9

The wisdom of a learned man depends on the opportunity of leisure; and he who has little business may become wise.
Jesus (Joshua) ben Sira ca. 180 BCE

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