Volume 3 Issue 6

The big event has arrived! Rebecca graduates Palo Verde High School this coming Tuesday, June 8, and family and friends are arriving from around the country to help her celebrate. Your e-gratulations may be sent to: beccascreename@aol.com
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The one response received to last week’s query was from daughter Rachel, and she graciously posted it to the Bulletin Board. I promise that I did not threaten to withhold her meager allowance to coerce this submission of her thoughts. An enterprise such as Growing in Christ should always be subject to ongoing evaluation, and any ideas that you may want to add to hers will be most welcome.
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The pervasiveness of injustice—petty to profound—in our society continues to impress me as the critical issue of our time. While this may strike some as a legal or ethical matter, I predictably regard it as rooted in theology. Knowing that renowned theologians from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Dominic Crossan to Marcus Borg have also reached the same conclusion has provided me with a degree of assurance that, should Growing in Christ be “renewed for another season”, the development of a theological response to all forms of injustice would be a worthy focus.
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An identifying characteristic of Truth is its timeless ability to speak to each new generation. I close, then, with these words of John Lennon that meant so much to me in my time and dedicate them to Rebecca for whom the words now having meaning for her in her time:
Imagine there’s no heaven.
It’s easy if you try.
No hell below us,
above us only sky.
Imagine all the people
living for today.
Imagine there’s no countries.
It isn’t hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
and no religion too.
Imagine all the people
living life in peace.
Imagine no possessions.
I wonder if you can.
No need for greed or hunger,
a brotherhood of man.
Imagine all the people
sharing the world.
You may say I’m a dreamer.
But I’m not the only one.
I hope some day you’ll join us
and the world will be as one.
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Until next week…….Shalom!