Powers and Principalities 101

Has anyone else found the nightly news juxtaposition of the oil companies' record profits and the UN's cutting food rations to refugees in Darfur by half -- that's below the minimum number of needed calories to sustain health -- troubling? No; not troubling; more like making your brain want to explode?

Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.

Lutheran World Relief , and other church relief agencies, are working in Darfur. Please send them some money, even though I know it's rough for most of us right now.

"I had rather a hundred times spend my life's energies working to heal the injustice around me, and never once speak of God ... than spend life converting others to God, while I gave not a snap for prisoners, slave camps, wars, starving peoples, the sins of the mighty. To what God would I be converting others, in such a demented case? In what God would I believe?" -- Dorothee Soelle