Author: Jeff Imbach

Beautiful, anguished, hopeful words from Steve Bell’s new album.  From the title track. Keening For The Dawn On and on the night goes on Brooding…

GIVEN RECENT EVENTS IN THE NEWS, IT IS CLEAR THAT WE DESPERATELY NEED LISTENING HEARTS – OPEN TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO GOD! We have…

I was listening to a radio broadcast yesterday in which contemplative was used to mean quiet.  Really it has nothing to do with quiet but…

“It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know…

On the recommendation of a fellow-partner, whom I respect very much, I have begun reading the book, Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love For This…

I was at a gathering of men this past weekend.  We began in 1998 when Miriam was dying, and they gathered to support me.  Then…

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”   Lao – Tsu

In the preface to the book by William Johnston, The Mysticism of the Cloud of Unknowing, Thomas Merton speaks about objections to apophatic mysticism, including…

Dorothee Soelle, Against The Wind:  Memoir of a Radical Christian   “My theological fathers, like Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann, still spend much time and…