Author: Glen Grunau

If we are honest, most of us have to admit that prayer is often more of an obligation than something arising spontaneously from desire .…

The coming of Jesus has certainly confused our experience of spirituality.  Our relationship to divinity, ever since, has become much more subtle.  Gone are the…

O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining, It is the night of the dear Saviour’s birth. Long lay the world in sin and error…

The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle. Nearly…

The orthodoxies that have been handed down to us in the monotheistic religions called for obedience to the commanding God. They threatened with punishment and…

The trivialization of life is perhaps the strongest anti-mystical force among us. Some people are literally obsessed by the compulsion to trivialize everything. . .…

“We’re all mystics!”  That sentence contains in itself the right of every human being to beauty and vision….Mysticism is the experience of the oneness and…

There are people who savour God in one way but not in another, and they want to possess God according to one manner of devotion…

But mortification – literally, “making death” – is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created so…

All God appears to want from us is honesty and humility (and they are finally the same thing). If God is holding out for human…