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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 with opening our hearts to the fulness of God.  Here is a quote from a…

“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 which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” Wendell Berry, Quoted in Coming…

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 World for Crucifixion and Empire. 2008.  It has already captured my interest.  I offer to…

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 it became a support for us all and we met monthly.  Several of us have…

“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 the objection by those who are suspicious of  “introversion.”   He says, “A final objection…

Dorothee Soelle, Against The Wind:  Memoir of a Radical Christian   “My theological fathers, like Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann, still spend much time and energy working in local congregations, attending ministers’ conferences, or answering letters of irate pastors. They…

Jewish tradition says that the splitting of the Red Sea was the greatest miracle ever performed. It was so extraordinary that on that day even a common servant beheld more than all the miracles beheld by Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel…