Love is All You Need
How many songs, poems, books, speeches, and articles have been about the search for love? While reading this week’s very familiar gospel passage*, a Beatles songs came to mind, All you need is love …. It’s the central message of wisdom traditions, advice columns, self-help books, fashion tips, movies, soap operas and ad campaigns. Life […]
Cleansing our Mindset
How do your faith and actions intersect with what is going on around you and the world? I see such an enormity of corruption, exploitation, greed, lies, war, and disregard for life, and I am profoundly sad – and angry. A lot of people today are angry – those misusing power and those being abused […]
The Alchemy of Fire
Standing in a grove of Douglas fir trees in Southern Oregon, an elder told me how pine cones open up during a wildfire, releasing the seeds of promise in the strangest of times. Without fire, it won’t happen. The heat that’s generated from a passing fire is the only thing that will do. Once the fire burns […]
Listening to Demons and Angels
112th century mosaic of the Temptations of Jesus in the Wilderness, Basilica San Marco, Venice If someone said to me “you are my beloved, and I am very happy with you,” I would be pretty angry if five minutes later that same person would leave me in the middle of the desert with nothing to […]