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The Inner Light

By |2023-10-17T14:09:23+00:00June 30, 2021|

I assure you I am well, content, and thankful to God for this extension of my ministry. Thank you for your interest, comments, correspondence, and contributions. I am grateful to Metropolitan Community Churches for recognizing this blog as an “Emerging Ministry” and ProgressiveChristianity.org for reposting many of my reflections, as well as the dozens of Facebook pages that allowed me to provide links to particular posts.

The Pandemic’s “Monastic” Opportunity

By |2023-10-17T14:06:40+00:00March 25, 2020|

To several readers, already isolated because of health or age or retirement, I’ve written this could be our “monastic” opportunity to experience the value of being “all-one” (where the word “alone” comes from) as well as resting in God, taking a break and a breath and a breather, especially important resisting a respiratory infection.

Love that Does Not Die

By |2023-10-17T14:06:13+00:00January 11, 2020|

Early Sunday morning before Christmas I learned that my first long term partner had died. It took me by surprise and grabbed me in the gut. I wanted to talk to somebody about it, but I didn’t think anyone could understand. So I’m talking about it with you, the reader of this blog.

Near Death Experiences

By |2023-10-17T14:05:52+00:00October 30, 2019|

A neighbor who looks every bit the part of a Hindu sage suggested humbly that expecting life to be eternal is “a bit greedy, don’t you think?”

Listen Up!

By |2023-10-17T14:05:32+00:00September 13, 2019|

Benedictine monk John Main has reminded me of something I first learned reading one of Gore Vidal’s historical novels. Reading to oneself became a thing only in recent centuries. “The spoken word is the essential medium for the communication of the gospel.”

God, Mother of Us All

By |2023-10-17T14:02:40+00:00May 5, 2019|

The 19th century English poet and mystic William Blake summed it up well when he said, “We are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love.” The spiritual teacher Henri Nouwen added that our time on earth is a brief span to say to God, “I love you too.”

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