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In this season of graduations, we celebrate the learning that continues on past school…
read moreIf you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she
gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is
better at arithmetic, you or your mother?
“Diversity is inevitable. Pluralism is an achievement.” We sometimes use these words — diversity and pluralism — as if they meant the same thing.
read moreHow strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures
read moreThere are places in the world that hold a special energy. You can feel it when you go there.
read moreSome of the best advice I ever got from my spiritual director was to read Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi. “This will change how you think about Jesus,” she said.
read moreYou can’t get to Easter without going through Good Friday.
read morePoetry and religion seem to go together: two approaches to the challenge of trying to capture the ineffable in words.
read moreNew music telling the ancient story can bring that story alive in our own time.
read moreWe’ve heard the story of Holy Week so many times that we’ve come to think there couldn’t possibly be another way to tell it.
read more“Preaching, teaching and healing” is the usual description of Jesus’ ministry.
read moreWhatever your own stance is on interpreting the Bible, there’s no denying its place as a foundational source of literary references in our culture.
read more“God is a verb” — one of those phrases that occurs independently to different people and then keeps showing up.
read moreBeginnings and endings are so connected… every beginning will eventually have an ending, and every ending makes possible a new beginning.
read moreMetanoia is a word worth learning. The Greek means literally “change your understanding” or “think differently.” In our modern parlance we might say, “Awaken!”
read moreProgressive Christianity lost one of its giants last week with the death of Marcus Borg. His books and lectures opened up the academic world of historical Jesus studies to the rest of us, and we will be forever in his debt.
read moreAudacious prayer is the cry of the heart. Mahatma Gandhi once wrote, “In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
read moreChristmas Eve is the culmination of the anticipation and preparation of Advent. This is what we have been waiting for and now it is here. Traditions – whatever yours are – hold comfort and connection. For a little while, our world keeps a different kind of time.
read moreReflecting on the birth of Jesus in poetry gives us yet another way to approach and assimilate this event. Birth is always a miraculous occurrence, and this birth even more so.
read moreMost of us have let go of the God-metaphor from our childhoods — the old man with a beard who lives in the sky (aka “the Sistine Chapel God”).
read moreAll Saints’ Day (or All Hallows’ Day on November 1st) and All Souls’ Day (also called Day of the Dead or Dia de los Muertos on November 2nd) combine to form a special time each year to remember those who have gone before us. These church holidays are celebrations of gratitude, the continuity of life and a reminder of our place in the cycle.
read moreWhere would we be without reflection? Pondering the past, imagining a new future, integrating our experiences into our sense of self… reflection, and the course corrections we make as a result, allows space for the Spirit to show up in our lives.
read more“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
read more“Our table is open to everyone because Jesus’ table fellowship was open to everyone.”
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