God Understands the Weakness of Our Love
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed,…
Author: Glen Grunau
Growth in Community
It is fairly natural and perhaps even necessary that a new community is taken up with its own originality and tends to idealize itself. If…
Community With Terrorists?
The community knows that the fundamental questions of life can only be looked at in a spirit of peace and inner freedom. Nobody can force…
Yes and No . . . to Love
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships…
Living Life in a Straight Line
Life itself – and Scripture too – is always three steps forward and two steps backward. It gets the point and then loses it or…
True Experience of God
…mysticism in both the East and West understands revelation to mean experience. The Divine reveals itself to humans directly and much more intensely in the…
The Essence of Being Human
It is in loving (or not loving) that we are (or are not) human. It is in heeding the call to love – in making…
Moving away from a self-referential life
We must get beyond even our most spiritual possessiveness, and find our joy simply in God being God. It is enough for us that he…
From Frederick Buechner's novel "Brendan"
Set in 6th century Wales, the elderly St. Brendan is in conversation with Gildas, a Welsh monk and scribe. Finn, Brendan’s friend and follower narrates…
abba (n)
abba (n) I am trying to unlearn, and then re-learn you Me with my finite body and tiny mind, I have tried to define you,…