On Tuesday, October 26th we held a dedication of the Reflection Room at Swedish/Edmonds, where I work as hospital chaplain. It has been a two-year process to get the room built, decorated and dedicated as “A place to worship, reflect, meditate, pray, seek, or just be.” I could write page after page about everything that’s in […]
Category: Giving
Love and Sacrifice. Or Self-Donation?
“Five years or fifty, when people have sweated, suffered, and shed blood together, there can be no hesitation: If one calls, the other responds.” This is how Laurie R. King’s heroine in the mystery novel “Justice Hall” explains why she is going off to help a friend in distress when she is really to tired to stir. And […]
Worship without Sacrifice
(The conversation on how we can lower barriers to faith communities continues on my other blog.) Mohandas Gandhi made a list of 7 deadly social sins that I got from Sojourner’s Magazine. 1. Politics without principle; 2. Wealth without work; 3. Commerce without morality; 4. Pleasure without conscience; 5. Education without character; 6. Science without humanity; and 7. […]
The Spirituality of Privilege
I want to start my blog today with a confession about class and privilege. As I followed the discussion on Quakers and class via http://www.quakerquaker.org, I said that I find it hard to place myself in any particular class or culture. My mea culpa (or confession) today is that I didn’t see at first how much of a privilege it is to be […]
Rich Liberals In an Age of Hunger
One of the more startling things to me during 2007 was the discovery that evangelicals give much more to charity than liberals do. This came from my favorite book about faith approaches to combating poverty in the world, “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger”, by Ron Sider. After hanging out with liberals (both ideological and religious), as a […]
Susanne Kromberg's Musings 