lent and faith
George Pell: The inconsistencies of his defenders just shows how much power they have.
Not a particularly enjoyable read about power and the abuse of it to build up the strong and keep down the weak.
I feel that if one is a Christian and thinks that Pell has been unjustly accused and convicted (ftr, I don't), then one can take heart in that Jesus was also unjustly accused, that God's justice is not merely temporal in the here and now but eternal in the forever and the innocent will see justice, and that people who have also been bruised and battered and silenced and scarred by abuse in religious institutions or any institutions will believe that their voices may be heeded and speak out seeing that rank is no barrier to conviction.
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Today is the start of Lent. I hadn't actually planned to give anything up, but a post on FB made me reconsider. I don't think I could give anything up right now, but I am wondering if I could take something on.
Reading through a devotion and writing notes on it, perhaps? I've been very bad at steady reading, so using something like this during Lent would be good. In the meantime, I've signed up for the Common Grace Lenten series, because I like their reflections, even if I'd prefer a little more in-depth study and thought.
Not a particularly enjoyable read about power and the abuse of it to build up the strong and keep down the weak.
I feel that if one is a Christian and thinks that Pell has been unjustly accused and convicted (ftr, I don't), then one can take heart in that Jesus was also unjustly accused, that God's justice is not merely temporal in the here and now but eternal in the forever and the innocent will see justice, and that people who have also been bruised and battered and silenced and scarred by abuse in religious institutions or any institutions will believe that their voices may be heeded and speak out seeing that rank is no barrier to conviction.
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Today is the start of Lent. I hadn't actually planned to give anything up, but a post on FB made me reconsider. I don't think I could give anything up right now, but I am wondering if I could take something on.
Reading through a devotion and writing notes on it, perhaps? I've been very bad at steady reading, so using something like this during Lent would be good. In the meantime, I've signed up for the Common Grace Lenten series, because I like their reflections, even if I'd prefer a little more in-depth study and thought.