Horizontal Hostility Archives - Contents and Containers

Earth November 6, 2019June 9, 2021

While we were still problematic, Christ was cancelled for us

Trump is deepening our trenches The pastors were talking about Obama’s speech on “call-out” culture that he offered during his Obama Foundation summit the other […] Read More

Fire, Wind December 20, 2017June 9, 2021

Why I still want to move with what the Spirit is doing next

I have been fascinated and discouraged by the feud between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cornel West, two black intellectuals that have influenced me in many ways. […] 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.