"lumbering our minds with literature..."

"Somewhere between prayer and revolution....:"

"This is what we were all doing, lumbering our minds with literature that only served to cloud the really vital situation spread before our eyes...I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. This, then, was the difficulty, this sweet dessert in the morning and the assumption that the sheltered, educated girl has nothing to do with the bitter poverty and the social maladjustment which is all around her, and which, after all, cannot be concealed, for it breaks through poetry and literature in a burning tide which overwhelms her." -Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House







Monday, March 21, 2011

The madness of our age







On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, we gather at 123 to do morning prayers. We are reading through Common Prayers: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals (2010). It is a book of prayers and songs compiled by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgove, and Enuma Okoro. Shane Claiborne is best known for his earlier work, The Irresistible Revolution (2006), which discusses his journey from the suburbs to the community house he helped form in the inner city of Philadelphia. I started reading it when we moved back to Columbus, but couldn't finish it until we moved to Franklinton.

From today's prayer (sounds better read aloud with Kelly and Ashley):

Desert father Abba Anthony said, "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us.'"

Lord, help us to resist: the madness of our age
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