Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 26

Nazareth to Ottawa: Election Eve Reflections

Good news to the poor.

Release to captives.

Recovery of sight to the blind.

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Return to the Table

On those panic-stricken days I wonder if Jesus has up and left, all I have to do is return to the table. It's there that I find him in the wafting, yeasty smell of bread. In the glutenous texture and taste of that broken fragment extended to me by a friend.

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Canada’s Election: When Fear is Stronger than Facts and Figures

This election campaign has me missing Jack Layton​’s spirit and presence on the trail.

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Living in the Tragic Gap

Living in in the Spirit

means holding the tension

of the tragic gap,

living in the tension of hope and reality,

and allowing that tension to break our hearts open,

so that the heartbreak of God,

becomes our heartbreak as well.

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A Road to Peace

For my own part, in the reality of my day to day life, I am often confounded by what it might actually mean that Jesus is the Prince of Peace. What do these prophetic poetics mean for us disciples walking the road with Jesus as his ministry unfolds?

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Truth, Elections and the Spirit

[A meditation on John 15.26-16.15 for Wine Before Beer, August 25, 2015]

In one of his most memorable quotes, philosopher Richard Rorty once said,

“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

Truth is a social construction and so what counts as truth is essentially whatever gains the greatest agreement (one way or another) at any time.

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Jesus is an Asshole

The other day I sat down with a profoundly faithful Christian friend who hates Jesus. Why? He's got this nasty habit of coming across as a complete asshole.

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Endless Struggle

What if the purpose of the struggle is not so much to win or lose, but to come away better understanding the one with whom you struggle?

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Room for Doubt

There was simply no room for doubt amongst the true believers, which clearly put me on the outs.

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Promise for the Middle Class

Jesus didn’t give a shit about power.

Or rather. Jesus didn’t give a shit about power in the way most of us would like to believe.

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