PacificPilgrim Blog — Michael Anthony Howard

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Pacific Activism: What is it?

Pacific Activism: What is it?

Pacific Activism, PeacemakingMichael HowardNovember 12, 2014christological pacifism, just peace, pacific activism, Pacifism, peacemaking, revolution

Ethics and the Will of God: The Peacemaking Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Ethics and the Will of God: The Peacemaking Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Links to things that m..., Pacific Activism, PeacemakingMichael HowardNovember 12, 2014Bonhoeffer, Mark Nation, pacific activism, Pacifism, peacemaking, Roger Olson, Scot McKnight

Prayers for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (November 16th, 2014)

Prayers for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (November 16th, 2014)

Liturgical Prayers, Year AMichael HowardNovember 10, 2014Creation Care, Love, Matthew 25, Pentecost 23A

Prayers for All Saints' Day: the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost (November 2nd, 2014)

Prayers for All Saints' Day: the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost (November 2nd, 2014)

Liturgical Prayers, The Gospel, Year AMichael HowardOctober 27, 2014All Saint's Day, Lectionary Prayers, Matthew 23:1-12

Saints in the hands of a humble heaven

Semon Preparation, The Gospel, Uncategorized, Year AMichael HowardOctober 27, 2014All Saint's Day, Communion, Holiness, Jonathan Edwards, Matthew 23:1-12, Saints

Mukteshwar = “Eternal Life God” (live performance by Aradhna)

Links to things that m..., PeacemakingMichael HowardOctober 26, 2014God's love, Mukteshwar, Politics of Love, Sermon on the Mount

The Revolutionary Politics of Love

Discipleship, Peacemaking, Semon PreparationMichael HowardOctober 20, 2014Divine Image, Judas of Galilee, Love, Matthew 22:34-46, Politics of Love

Prayers for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost (October 26th, 2014)

Liturgical Prayers, Year AMichael HowardOctober 21, 2014God's love, Love, Matthew 22, Matthew 22:34-46

Prayers for the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (October 19th, 2014)

Liturgical Prayers, Year AMichael HowardOctober 13, 2014Lectionary Prayers, Matthew 22, Pentecost 19A, Prayers

Prayers for the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (October 12th, 2014)

Lectionary Reflections, Liturgical Prayers, The Gospel, Year AMichael HowardOctober 7, 2014Chosen, election, Lectionary Prayers, Matthew 22:1-14, Pentecost 18A, Prayers

To hell with the bully god

Semon Preparation, The Gospel, Year AMichael HowardOctober 6, 2014bully god, bullying, hell, Matthew 22, Matthew 22:1-14, Unchosen

Vineyard Tales (Matthew 21:33-46)

Who are the prophets? Abraham Heschel and Simone Weil on paying attention

Who are the prophets? Abraham Heschel and Simone Weil on paying attention

Who are the prophets? If one reads the biblical accounts of the prophets, it is clear to see that they are certainly an odd bunch.

Pacific ActivismMichael HowardOctober 1, 2014Abraham Heschel, activism, Paying Attention, Prophets, Simone Weil

"Why Do the Members of Christ Tear One Another?" By Dorothy Day

ReflectionMichael HowardSeptember 30, 2014Dorothy Day, Matthew 21:33-46, Pacifism, War

Prayers for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (World Communion Sunday, October 5, 2014)

Liturgical Prayers, Year AMichael HowardSeptember 29, 2014Litrugy, Liturgical Calendar, Matthew 21:33-46, Prayers, Proper 22, Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Vineyard, World Communion

A difficult text to preach: Ched Myers and the Parable of the Tenants

A difficult text to preach: Ched Myers and the Parable of the Tenants

In all honesty, the text for this coming Sunday, Matthew 21:33-46, is quite a difficult one to preach.

Semon PreparationMichael HowardSeptember 29, 2014Ant-Semitism, Ched Myers, Discipleship, Matthew 21:33-46, Parable of the Tenants, Repentance, The UNking

Is pacifism for when "life happens"? A response to Rachel Held Evans

UncategorizedMichael HowardSeptember 28, 2014

By what authority?

Definitions and Reflec..., Discipleship, SermonsMichael HowardSeptember 27, 2014Authority, institutional authority, Rich Mullins, The Ragamuffin Gospel, virtuoso religion

A Place Beyond

Michael HowardSeptember 11, 2014faith, Poetry, psalm 23, salvation

"Faith and Fratricide": A repentant response

RefelctionsMichael HowardAugust 31, 2014Anti-semitism, Christian Triumphalism, Judaism, Prophetic Tradition, Repentance