Biblical Meditations: Church Renewal

by Stephen C. Rose

These Biblical Meditations typically combine Old and New Testament texts with a text from the Epistles. Each contains seed thoughts, pithy sentences designed to jog musing, intention, sensibility. One takeaway may be an awareness that at every point these Bible texts surprise and that we are both their authors and their interpreters.

A sample from the very first

The only thing to think about today is whether the huge enterprise that Jesus calls us to is the building of a great monument to the Lord with bricks and mortar or the winning is miniscule, unseen victories of goodness and obedience recorded in heaven and unnoticed on earth.

Is it not the very dream at the heart of Jesus’ mission that a day will come when these victories will be seen, when our predatory world is turned into a more perfect world of tolerance, respect for the rights of all and help that is a solution, not part of a problem?

Stephen C. Rose (1936-) was born in New York City and raised there. He currently lives there. His first books "The Grass Roots Church" and "Who's Killing The Church" established him as a prominent critic of American Protestantism and American religion. He was and remains a civil rights activist. He has interviewed and done in depth pieces on Saul Alinsky and Martin Luther King, Jr. He won awards for editorial courage and for two documentary films. He has written and published many songs and musical works including "We Are All Americans". During the late 90s and early 2000s he worked for UN agencies, most recently editing CHOICES Magazine at UNDP. Since 2000 he has written several books for distribution via Kindle. He is currently engaged in a major work on Twitter called "Triadic Philosophy". With over 1500 statements and aphorisms, it bids to become an influential force in forming the consciousness of this century.

68 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 23, 2008

About the author

Born and raised in Manhattan.Attended Phillips Exeter Academy and finished Williams College Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in Political Science and English. Received a Masters from Union Theological Seminary in New York and founded Renewal Magazine in Chicago in 1961. Active in the Civil Rights movement, reporting from Birmingham, Oxford and Selma. Interviewed Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., C. A. Doxiadis and Saul Alinsky. From 1968-1980, lived in Stockbridge, MA. Became head of the Albert Schweitzer Center. Now live in Manhattan where I worked for UN agencies, including UNICEF. At UNDP I edited CHOICES. Magazine. Author of 15 books including "The Grass Roots Church" and, recently, "Abba's Way" and "Beyond Creed". . Email: steverose at gmail dot com My most recent books are on Kindle and can all be found on Goodreads.