Jun 26, 2006 | Uncategorized
I have encountered and treasure special new friends from my readings, namely Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey and St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul. These two men are from different times and different places and yet they share common ground on...
Jun 15, 2006 | Uncategorized
not even the dead left now in that lonely valleythe killing fields stripped of their bootynothing left for the vultures to pick onuntouched for 40 years, the skeletons lie where they fellragged cloth blowing in the breeze He says this is part of His gardenand the...
Jun 9, 2006 | Uncategorized
A Path Between: Spiritual formation begins with yourself and ends in community. Joy equals Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last. I learned this formula as a child and it sounded good. Other language used to talk and sing about the spiritual life confirmed this...
Jun 9, 2006 | Uncategorized
“Born again” is one of the most often used phrases in recent Christian experience in North America. We’ve heard it ad nauseum in sermons and songs. “Are you a born again Christian?” “Ye must be born again.” And the list goes on. Is being “born again” about a...
Jun 9, 2006 | Uncategorized
With the ongoing violence in Israel and West Bank and the US invasion of the former Babylonian Empire the time is ripe for “new” conspiracy theories of all kinds, hence The Matrix, Left Behind and the DaVinci Code. Who is real? Who is Satan? Who was Jesus Christ...
Jun 9, 2006 | Uncategorized
Remember Copernicus? He was the guy who dared to suggest that the earth was a round moving ball when the Bible clearly said that it was flat and stationary (e.g. Isaiah 5:26, Psalm 104:5, Joshua 10:13). Proponents of his views were made to recant or were burned at the...
