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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…

“Words, after all, are an illusion until they take on flesh.  It is the doing that sings.” Murray Bodo, The Way of St. Francis: The Challenge of Franciscan Spirituality for Everyone, p. 122.

” Ethics is how we behave when we decide we belong together.” –Brother David Steindl-Rast