I and Thou

by / on May 22, 2013 at 2:33 pm / in I and Thou, Jon Trott

Hating Hillary (or) Is There No Such Thing as Hate Speech Anymore?

Is there any word or sentiment which is off limits these days? Last week, talk radio shrieker Pete Santilli accused Hillary Clinton of being involved with the killing of American troops in Benghazi, Libya. And then he offered this: “I want to shoot her right in the vagina and I [...]

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by / on March 5, 2013 at 3:33 pm / in Act Out!, Faith Works, I and Thou, Jon Trott

Of Pigeons and Homeless People in Uptown

There’s a man going through your dust bin Only this time he’s looking for food There’s a tear in his eye, you don’t know him Oh but you know what he’s going through Ain’t it funny that you can’t seem to help him Bein’ sick as he staggers away Is [...]

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by / on January 15, 2013 at 2:23 pm / in I and Thou, Jesus People USA Community, JPUSA Sermons

JPUSA Pastor Dawn Mortimer – “Welcome Home, My Beloved”

Dawn Mortimer’s foundational contributions to the heart vision of Jesus People USA cannot be over-estimated. She is currently too ill to have joined the other JPUSA pastors at our annual New Year’s Service, where traditionally each of them deliver a short message of encouragement for the coming year. Dawn, with [...]

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by / on December 5, 2012 at 5:01 pm / in I and Thou, Jon Trott

Tweet-sized: Got a High Card?

Think you’re holding a theological ace? First, no you aren’t. Second, God doesn’t play cards.

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by / on September 7, 2012 at 1:28 pm / in I and Thou, Jon Trott, Poetry

Lower (A poem about the White Imagination)

Lower by Jon Trott Young, I imagined the limbs of black women wrapped around me, desperate for rescue, desperate for one white heart that understood. I strove with them in loving lust, Knew gentle every inch of skin, a Kiss

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by / on September 5, 2012 at 10:02 am / in I and Thou, Jon Trott

UPDATE: Jhan Moskowitz, Jews for Jesus Director, Suffers Fatal Injury in Fall

Dear friends of JPUSA and Jesus movement-era acquaintances, (UPDATED as of 1:30 pm CST Sept. 5) Jhan Moskowitz, a friend of JPUSA and North American Director of Jews for Jesus, has sustained a severe head injury due to a reported fall in a New York Subway Station and has, despite [...]

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by / on August 31, 2012 at 11:30 am / in I and Thou, Jon Trott

Clint Eastwood and the Empty Chair

CLINT EASTWOOD AND THE EMPTY CHAIR “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man This isn’t the place to attack or defend my Presidential candidate of choice. That said, to let last night’s comments from actor / director Clint Eastwood go

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by / on August 28, 2012 at 9:37 am / in I and Thou, Jon Trott, Justice

“I Have a Dream”: Martin Luther King’s Magnificent Speech, August 28, 1963

[Complete video and text.] August 28, 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King delivered one of the most important, eloquent speeches in American History. Perhaps it was the single most

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by / on August 22, 2012 at 5:46 pm / in I and Thou, JPUSA Sermons

Where Are Goodness and Mercy on the Bad Days? Jennifer Ingerson (w/ Audio and Text)

Where are goodness and mercy on the bad days? Sermon offered at Jesus People USA Evangelical Covenant Church 08/22/2012 by Jennifer Ingerson

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by / on July 23, 2012 at 3:24 pm / in Devotionals, I and Thou, Jon Trott

Let’s Get Organic: God, Sin, and Human Beings’ Ability to Change

History offers many examples of technological and intellectual change (we can do more and we know more than we used to). But as far as humankind’s moral dimension, there is scant and/or confusing evidence of any real movement forward. Our weapons of war are more sophisticated and deadly than ever [...]

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