Just the Feet, Pete

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

If we want peace, we must study, train and equip ourselves for it as thoroughly as the military does for war.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Minor disappointments cannot cloud the fact that the sun is shining, nor that you love us.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Originally I was thinking along the lines of steak and lobster. But that such extravagance does not suit our movement. So we have bread and wine for this supper together.”

[Oh what a meal it’s been. But He never said this.]


D. Blog: Washing Feet

I heard a minister tell how he became a Christian. He had served in the Korean War, seen horrible things, heard awful stories from soldiers and Koreans alike. God could not exist, he thought, if such atrocities happened.

Back in the US, he settled in Virginia, met a woman, fell in love such that he agreed to go with her to a Maundy Thursday feet-washing service at her church, where he could observe the ritual without participating. As he told the story, when he saw the town banker wash the feet of a poor hog farmer, he recognized it as a glimmer of hope, a sign that God might be at work in the world, an act that proclaimed good news. He wanted to know more...