Both-And – June 23, 2021
“I am upheld by the realization that religion is a communal vision. I am not, my prairie mother’s notions notwithstanding, alone with my Bible facing a cyclone. The community was and is both male and female. My teachers were women and men, the authors I read women and men, the saints before me were both […]
A Communal Worldview – June 22, 2021
“The delight in hearing one’s own voice is lethal to religion. Religion used to be, and still is for some, a communal worldview about ultimate reality, with the resultant communal rituals and ethics. In most earlier societies, all the people who lived in the same locale endured the same natural disasters, survived the same plagues. […]
Practice as Training – Aug. 19, 2020
“Wisdom Christianity is practice driven. When you do the practices that nurture the heart, you will sense this connection as a living bond. Your being becomes receptive to the higher meaning. When the practices that sustain this encounter begin to drop out, you revert back to your usual operating system, and the connection fades.” –Cynthia […]
Among the Suffering – July 1, 2020
“I’ve never fully understood how Christianity became quite so tame and respectable, given its origins among drunkards, prostitutes, and tax collectors… Jesus could have hung out in the high-end religious scene of his day, but instead he scoffed at all that, choosing instead to laugh at the powerful, befriend whores, kiss sinners, and eat with […]
