In a book on inner city renewal..”renewing civil society is a very important overarching contribution of Christianity to urban life, not as justification of the status qo but in service of the transformation of community and the public sphere” a book writtern about Maryland by Mark Gornik writes…this could be applied about Jewish theology and Muslim, the theology of Love issupposed to challenge us to rewew and to Help Tikkum Elum. Susan of the Jewish youth group called me yesterday..remember Jim what you said, Jacobs ladder…how do we climb Jacobs ladder daily..how to do we seek to heal the world, to help the world to challenge it to get better…what efforts do we do daily…I am going to start a Tikkum Elum group…to heal and help the world..and Westchester…part of the problem of just looking at inner city ministry is there is often no look at outer city ministery…how zoning, deregulation, prejudice of economic, ethnic and racial prejudice has caused our world to be full of cars, zoned out lots, houses with no sidewalks and false sense of community..and perhaps caring that we believe in the American Dream for all, or the worldwide dream of We are the World…we have the ability to help change things for the better…wont you help us today..
Nothing is in a vacuum, our economy, jobs, community, the love of each other..no congregation can really be about love if they are segregated, and no politician an American, if they continue with roots of prejudice, hidden in the guise of phony photo ops…. Join us, challenge us, build with us together..as we climb Jacobs ladder together..May God bless you in every way..
James Killoran
Executive Director
Habitat for Humanity of
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