health care Archives - Contents and Containers

Wind July 28, 2021July 31, 2021

Why we need more than personal relationships to make change

Depriving the unvaccinated of health care is a bad idea: People who refuse the vaccine for reasons other than preexisting medical conditions, should be required […] Read More

Essays October 10, 2013June 9, 2021

Extortion in the name of Jesus? Lord, have mercy.

It might be better for me just to turn up the music in my earbuds and make sure that I don’t read the newspaper anymore. […] Read More

Vignettes July 4, 2012June 9, 2021

I used to listen to NPR on the radio in my car a lot.

Written in December of 2009. I used to listen to NPR on the radio in my car a lot. NPR has this presence to it, […] Read More

What’s with the categories? They’re all loosely based on Circle of Hope’s idea of spiritual development, utilizing the elements to represent cyclical stages of our growth in Jesus. The posts land somewhere in one of those growth cycles, but are certainly for everyone to read. Following Jesus develops like all human development. At Circle of Hope we see ourselves moving from earth to wind to fire to water in an ongoing, organic process of receiving and enjoying our new, true selves in Jesus.

Earth: Planting seeds of faith and helping them sprout.

Wind: Taking first steps of life in the Spirit.

Fire: Accepting the gifts we bring to a community and our purpose, and learning to give them.

Water: Deepening experience of transformation.