This is the Life – Nov. 14, 2022
“And this is it. This is the life we get here on earth. We get to give away what we receive. We get to believe in each other. We get to forgive and be forgiven. We get to love imperfectly. And we never know what effect it will have for years to come. And all […]
The Circle – Nov. 4, 2022
“The circle, Carl Jung once said, is the classic symbol for wholeness, or God, and the circular path an analogue for the way toward it. We are always being drawn toward it, says June Singer, and yet “to fly straight into it would be like a moth darting into a flame of the Earth hurtling […]
A Lifestyle – Aug. 4, 2022
Christianity is a lifestyle — a way ofbeing in the world that is simple,non-violent, shared, and loving.However, we made it into anestablished “religion” (and all thatgoes with that) and avoided thelifestyle change itself. One could bewarlike, greedy, racist, selfish, andvain in most of Christian history, andstill believe that Jesus is one’s“personal Lord and Savior.”The world […]
A Soul’s Worth
The direction she gave was exactly as my mother taught, so I knew it to be a perennial truth, even though I was five years old. Our kindergarten teacher, Ms. Olive Garrett, took Richard by the hand, whispering in his ear, showing him how to share the wooden blocks he was hoarding. I was the student […]
