Pursuing God's Justice, Enacting God's kingdom
“Japan, Suffering and Hope” VJN asked Miarose Ishijima, an HLI graduate, to contribute to our Easter series. This past winter, I spent the better part of my Christmas vacation reuniting with my father and grandfather in Tokyo, Japan after almost a decade apart. One night …
“Living More with Less” Today, VJN kicks off a series of reflections we are calling “Easter and the Justice of God” that will lead up to Easter. We’ve asked some friends, in light of Easter, to reflect on Jesus, Suffering, Resurrection, Justice, Peacemaking Discipleship and …
There is a postscript to the myth that at the crossroads where blues-legend Robert Johnson made his pact with the devil, it is this: Robert all ready possessed the sound that caused the strings on his guitar to vibrate, hum, and sing with a sound …
VJN invited Michael Raburn to share his thoughts on the film Selma and the Civil Rights Movement. I saw the film Selma recently (and I highly recommend seeing it). It stirred up a lot of thoughts and feelings and predominant among them was how much has changed and …
Frederick Douglass is known as the great abolitionist and statesman but what many do not know is that he was a preacher in the African Methodist Zion church. As a preacher an ex-slave, and a prominent leader in the abolition movement, Douglass had some piercing …