In recent weeks I keep coming back to the song "You'll Never Walk Alone" originally by Gerry and the Pacemakers but covered countless times by the like so of Elvis and even Marcus Mumford (seriously check that cover out). The transformative tune was brought to my attention by the documentary "This is Football" on Prime video. In the film we learn that this unifying modern hymn is the club song of Liverpool (an english football [aka Soccer] club) that unites the fan base at every match. In a beautiful display of the power of the lyrics, Rwandan victims of their country's genocide, and now orphans, have used this song as a mantra for life and have found love and community around the song and the fandom of the Liverpool squad. Think of that -- Orphans of a genocide living the truth, "you'll never walk alone". Love it. This song so beautifully illustrates the persistence of an ever present community that is always with us when we carry hope i...
Seeking to find the morsels of truth in which the new wine of love will be made. Letting the past things be past and reconstructing a faith that seeks the loving, inclusive, ragamuffin kingdom of God.