What happens to old man Zebedee after everyone leaves? There he is, holding the dropped and half-mended nets as his sons and their friends leave without so much a second thought. When he finally returns home, he’ll find that his wife, too, has left with his sons, to whirl about them and attempt to curryContinue reading
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The Call to Humanize
To Jesus, angry, contemptuous name-calling is a form of violence on par with murder itself. It’s the seeds of dehumanization, and any time we see this kind of awful rhetoric leveled against entire groups of people we are in danger again of being thrown into the raging fires of hell on earth. Dehumanization is the volatile and dangerous fuel on which the engines of war, violence, bigotry, and exploitation run, until at last and inevitably, it catches fire and consumes itself and everything in its vicinity.
The Rev. David Henson 