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Tag: Self-emptying love

I wish I could hate them.

Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 by Michael Rose
I wish I could hate them. In ways, it would be so much easier. Their violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, greed, exploitation of the poor, the anything-to-win-politics and indiscriminate, consumption of the planet and each other.  I hate the scapegoating, half-truths, spins ... all the bullshit.  I hate the value of winning at all...
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    December 15, 2018

    Sanitized for your Convenience?

    I don't know why but for some reason I have this hangover from my early religious training - that God abhors a mess.  There was a season many years ago that I can remember teaching that the Father actually turned His face away from Jesus on the cross because Jesus was becoming sin (on our...
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  • Oh Blessed Vice
    August 8, 2012

    Oh Blessed Vice

    It is true that God can use all things for our good - even our sin and brokenness. St. Augustine would call sin his blessed vice because he knew his sin would drive him back to the foot of the cross - relieving him from the heavy burden of it.  This is the beauty and...
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    10 Ideas for Empowering Leadership

    Leadership is not a job, not a role one plays at work and then puts aside during the commute home in order to relax and enjoy real life. Rather, leadership is the leader's real life. -    CHRIS LOWNEY, Heroic Leadership Leadership flows from who you are and whether you realize it or not you are...
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