Jun 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Friends,In this portion from Neaners' reflections below, it amazes me how differently this tattooed former gang leader reads the scriptures. For instance, in these "judgement texts" from the prophet Jeremiah, Neaners does not hear it as confirming...
Jun 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Simone Weil, a French-woman born in the twentieth century remains a hidden treasure among many philosophers of her time. Her works, published after her death, contain jewels of contemplative, spiritual, pedagogical and political insights. More recently, Weil has...
May 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Psalm 2 The Reign of the LORD’S Anointed. 1 Why are the nations in an uproar And the peoples devising a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth take their stand And the rulers take counsel together Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3 “Let us tear...
May 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
A Contemplative Response To Our Present Economic Super-Agenda “When civilizations start to die they go insane.” So begins a recent piece by Chris Hedges. “Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt,” he says. “Let the temperatures rise. Let the air,...
May 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Public discussion of religion tends to polarize between two extremes: religious fundamentalism, and the aggressive atheism of such writers as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. But much of what people actually believe falls somewhere in between. It is subtler...
Apr 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is the first of several reflections Neaners had on the story of Mary and Martha in the gospel of Luke. From his context, he reads the familiar story not as the old tension between action vs. contemplation, busyness vs. prayer, but competition vs. unity at...
