I wrote this before election Day so enjoy a respite. The orthopedic Nurse Practitioner who gives me cortisone shots in my knees is retiring and introduced me to the new ONP. I swear she is … [Read more...]
Forget about worship…worry about where your treasure is instead
We should feel alarmed and threatened. Isaiah is telling us, with the voice of God on his lips no less, that formal, public worship should be eliminated. Luke is telling us, on the voice of … [Read more...]
Please don’t sit on it
When I was young I went to camp in southern Indiana. If you have only driven across the middle of the state on I-70 then you likely think the state is flat-on-flat cornfields. But the southern third … [Read more...]
An Act of Will, and an Art of the Mind
This post originated as a column in the feature, "Denim Spirit," published by The Finger Lakes Times … [Read more...]
Awakening the Voices of the Wounded Within
“We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (Carl Jung) “You do not have to be good… you only have to let the soft animal of your body love … [Read more...]
A Wednesday Rant: Charging the gap of mystery
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.” Full link to Annie Dillard quote: … [Read more...]
Where were you at the beginning of the world?
https://soundcloud.com/subversivepreacher-pods/where-were-you-at-the-beginning-of-the-world … [Read more...]
Gold melts away
Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom, grief is its mellowing, surrender its renewal. … [Read more...]