Author: pastordan

All right, either I’m a big idiot and somebody already covered this story, or I’m actually the first person to pick up on it. Either way, this is not surprising: The government’s $5 billion effort to help small...

From the UCC Justice and Peace Action Network: “Hope Shall Bloom” is the name of the UCC Hurricane Recovery Relief Fund. A goal of raising $3 million has been set for this effort, as one way to walk with survivors of...

Let us join together in a time of great anguish to pray* for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, for our leaders, and for ourselves. For the victims: We remember those displaced by enormous catastrophe: whose houses were destroyed...

Shortly after the Boxing Day Tsunami, I wrote this diary on theodicy, “the defense or explanation of God’s work in the face of tragedy or evil,” in which I suggested that God’s presence in natural...

In honor of the City of Saints, an Invocation of the Saints: Bridegroom of poverty, our brother Francis, follower of Jesus and friend of creation: Stand here beside us. John XXIII, Pope and friend of the poor, who longed for the...