“As for the majority of citizens, are they not like the crowd that gathered on Calvary, not to cheer a miscarriage of justice, but also not to protest it? Failing to realize that compassion without confrontation is hopelessly sentimental, the people go home beating their breasts, preferring guilt to responsibility.” — William Sloane Coffin’s Easter Sermon at Riverside Church, April 3rd, 1983.

Happy Easter.

The Fourth Thing I’m Thankful For—and I do still have ten—The Weekend:

















I know I won’t always have weekends like these—the kind where there’s nothing but time. So yeah I’m thankful for the leisure. But even more than that: I’m thankful for the ability and the security and the community that make wandering, endless, friend- and food-filled weekends possible.