Jesus sought to transform his social world by creating an alternative community structured around compassion, radicalized love. As Prophet, it also involved him in the radical criticism of his culture’s present path and warning his people of the catastrophic historical direction in which they were headed. The prophetic is a revitalization movement rooted in love, revealed Spirit maturity and manifested fruit of the Spirit in hearing, seeing, thinking and then speaking. As

We can know as much as Holy Spirit chooses to reveal to us and within us. Until our eyes are opened to truth, we may not know. In the passage Matthew 16:18, Jesus says to Peter, “ I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.” I began to reflect on the gate to the backyard of my paternal grandparents home in SC where my grandmother would feed many of the community pets. During one of those feeding times, she told me to close the gate so the pets

What are we being shown? What values we have? Who governs us and how? What are the foundations of commercial capitalism, for the cathedrals of consumerism lie bare! What is civilization but a clearing in the forest and now it is closing in on us. Biopolitics? Genetic informatics? The hierarchy of privilege is a wide spectrum: psycho-social, ecological and spiritual. So, what can we learn from this? I'm unsure we emerge on the other side the same as we once were. Moving throug