https://transformingcenter.org/2023/02/season-19-lent-ash-wednesday-invitation-to-a-just-lent-learning-to-love-what-god-loves/ Strengthen The Soul Of Your Leadership Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://transformingcenter.org/2023/02/season-19-lent-ash-wednesday-invitation-to-a-just-lent-learning-to-love-what-god-loves/#comment-732099 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:53:41 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=16819#comment-732099 Excellent and inspiring podcast. I especially enjoyed Amena Brown’s reading of Isaiah 58 at the very end. Thank you for helping me focus my Lent season on justice. I’m excited to use A Just Passion, as well.

]]> https://transformingcenter.org/2023/02/season-19-lent-ash-wednesday-invitation-to-a-just-lent-learning-to-love-what-god-loves/#comment-732098 Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:16:12 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=16819#comment-732098 Thank you for this and may you have a wonderful Lent season. I hope you will forgive me for saying that the church has also had MANY successes in seeking social justice, they are just often ignored. The monasteries in Europe WERE the social services for around six hundred years. They employed thousands of people, fed the poor and often looked after the sick. Not perfectly but there was no one else. The churches began the first schools and hospitals, they were involved in prison reform the creation of orphanages, taking the Gospel in practical ways to the poorest (Salvation Army), establishing the beginnings of workers rights, (5 of the Tolpuddle Martyrs were Methodists), and campaigned for the end of slavery. Yes, there are many failings in church history, but please lets acknowledge that the church has also done what no one else rose up to do, and still does all around the world.

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