The whole cloth of my life has been woven from conception with the warp of my DNA, era, family, and God and then interwoven with places where I lived, people, friends from across 70 years, jobs and vocation, interests and experiences. Traveling recently to California and seeing people I was once close to and some […]
The whole church needs to stop complaining about the hostile atmosphere of today, when so many people are anti-religion. The church of all stripes: Catholic, Evangelical and Mainline Protestant—must own up to its share in what has gone wrong. We could paraphrase Nietzsche and say, “the church is dying and we have […]
My apologies for not posting last Monday. I did not have access to the internet for a week. So here is the one that should have posted then. What is faith? Sometimes when people talk about their faith, they are talking about what they believe. At other times, it seems like much more than […]
Recent snapshots that delight: four turkeys waddling up the road, then turning right and sauntering out of view; a pair of bluebirds at my feeder—a first this year; Identifying a warbler high in a tree through binoculars; standing on the berm near the cabin with a glass of wine in my hands watching the 45 […]
Beliefs are a fine starting place for the Life of the Spirit, but they don’t take you very far. They take you to the threshold of a real relationship with God, but only your faith, perseverance and love and the healing power of the Holy Spirit will take you all the […]
I want to propose that being created in God’s image means that we know something of what God knows, at least in our deepest selves, that we have some divine capacity within us that can know God at least in part and be deeply connected to God. It does not mean […]
In the early 13th century as Francis of Assisi began to gather followers around him and then, having establishing his order with the pope, Francis sent out his monks with these words, “Preach the gospel everywhere, and when necessary use words.” 800 years later we can only imagine what was in his mind, but this […]
Are you a prisoner of your own thinking? Are you trapped in servitude to an idea or way of life that no longer works for you? Are you a slave to someone else’s thinking? Are you living your own life or the life someone else designed for you? Look no farther than to Moses and […]
I don’t believe in original sin. And here I’d like to explore why I don’t. For a start I do believe that we are not like the other animals whose instinctual nature means that they will follow the arc of their creation as far as their impact on the whole ecology. For me we […]
Bundled up against the cold this week, I have been walking down to the Little Sugar Creek Greenway which is a mere block from my house, sometimes for an exercise walk and other times with my binoculars for a “bird” walk. In the last four days I have seen a pair of […]