by Mark Van Steenwyk 30 January 2009I am currently writing this reflection a couple blocks away from the Monument for the Revolution in Mexico City. To many around the world, revolution isn’t simply a nifty idea. It is a painful-yet-inspiring reality. Mexico, like many nations in Latin America was forged in revolution.
No where is the revolutionary past of Mexico more clearly [...]
by Mark Van Steenwyk 5 January 2009This poem “gets at” the way I understand liturgy at Missio Dei. For us, liturgy isn’t merely a submission to certain prayers and songs and sacred readings in a service; it is also a submission to the subtle ways that the Spirit is moving in our neighborhood. Our neighborhood is sacred, in a [...]