Monthly Archives: November 2011

Justice and Mercy…Not The Same Thing

I’ll often read people speaking of how they desire “peace and justice.” This always strikes me as peculiar, because usually these people are angry about something and I wonder at their conflation of those two concepts. Not to say that peace is never just or that justice never entails a return to peace, but I [...]

Persistence Seeking

“He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD.” (2 Chronicles 12:14) Today I’ll talk a little bit about this whole “persistence seeking” thing which I mention periodically: what it means, why it matters. If Celtic Christianity is the why of my life, then persistence seeking is the how. I [...]