Lord's Prayer Series / Radical Kin-dom

What is the difference between Kingdom and Kin-dom?  
 
Kingdom was a radical protest and Kin-dom is radical relationship.  Let me explain...
 
The use of the word ‘Kingdom’ was a radical protest…there were Kingdoms that were oppressive to the communities of Jesus time and place. This wording is Jesus’ alternative to the Roman Empire.   
The Kingdom of God will be radically different than all the others.  Your Kingdom Come…God’s Kingdom.
 

Kin-dom however, is defined as the full diversity and relationship of all of God’s children come together.  Kinship is connection, how we connect to each other.  It’s being in radical relationship.  
It is recognizing all God's children.   Your Kin-dom come.
 
I learned about this creating of God’s Kin-dom or Kinship on our 2018 Youth Group Learning and Service Trip to Los Angeles and our visit to Homeboy Industries founded by Father Gregory Boyle. Homeboy Ind. is the world's largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program.
 
When we visited Homeboy Ind. we learned from former gang members who gave us a tour, explained their programs and answered our questions.  They shared their own transformation stories.  Homeboy Ind. provides education, skill and job training, tattoo removal, an art academy, mental health, and social services.  We were lucky to have lunch that day provided by Homegirl Café and Catering.
 
Gregory Boyle teaches us that God’s love and compassion brings unity among us.   Kinship is inclusion and radical acceptance.  If there is no kinship there is no peace, no kinship no justice, no kinship no community.
God’s Kin-dom is unfulfilled as long as there are people suffering at the margins. People left out.  People ignored.  People excluded.  People trapped behind barriers of shame and brokenness.  The poor, the powerless, and the voiceless. The homeless, the immigrant, the gang member…Jesus didn’t cure people, he healed people through inclusion.  Jesus brought the marginalized into the whole of radical kinship. 
 
S0, lets us challenge ourselves to try out saying…Your Radical Kin-dom come.
 
This part of the Lord’s Prayer is a prayer for a brave new world.
What choices will we make and how will we create God’s intended Radical Kinship into reality?

Our God,
Whose Art is Heaven,                                                                
Holy is Your name! 
Holy are you, Holy am I, Holy are we together.   
May Your radical Kin-dom come,                                                 

“Only the soul that ventilates the world with tenderness has any chance of changing the world.”
--Fr. Gregory Boyle

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