Peacemakers

Rich Dixon is here again. +++ Blessed are the peacemakers – we recognize it as one of the Beatitudes, we’ve heard and read it many times. Until recently, I didn’t understand what it truly meant, or how difficult authentic peacemaking might be. I always thought peacemaking meant stopping war. Until someone pointed out that brothels […]

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A Saturday in Paradise.

You may have read these words at thisishard.substack.com. I thought they may be helpful here, too. +++ Nancy and I go to Paradise (a town in Michigan) every year or two in October. It’s a short trip between hospital Tuesdays and hospital Sundays. But it’s important to us. This year, we took a friend along. […]

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The margins

From Rich Dixon Last time I talked about a bunch of questions about building bridges to what I see as an increasing population of people living on the margins. As frequently happens, my conversations with Jesus about this quandary brought me an insight in the form of a quote from Father Gregory Boyle. Speaking at […]

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