Being Bread
After a late dinner, we were walking back to our hotel when the breeze brought a whiff of freshly baked bread. I turned and stared through the darkness at an arched opening backlit by flames. A glistening shirtless man was lifting loaves out of the brick oven with a long paddle, balancing, turning, then sliding […]
Pretending – June 21, 2021
“I know that many women are writing about their personal experience, whether religious or not, as if in this postmodern time we can speak of nothing but ourselves. We cannot write authoritatively of history, we are told, for it was recorded wrong, and we have only tainted examples to examine. We ought not write theology […]
Already Connected – May 28, 2021
“As we consciously let God within us flow and as we interconnect with God in others, we experience ourselves as bonded, not only to each other but in the divine relationship. We experience the “is-ness” of the whole, thus extending the flow of eternal life—the eternal realm—into this realm. We prepared our souls for the […]
Love Rights – Jan. 19, 2021
“If we can call what for us is nature, ‘God’s creation’, we have already invoked its immanent transcendence. We have then recognized the Creator’s right to what [God] has created. And in so doing, we have also acknowledged the rights of our fellow creatures themselves, rights which exist quite apart from their value for us. […]
