Eclipsing Reality – Aug. 24, 2021
“God is not a thing. And since God is not a thing, God cannot be held onto. God can only be encountered as that which eclipses the reality of all other things.” –Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark
Smaller Than a Shoebox – Aug. 23, 2021
“I cannot say for sure when my reliable ideas about God began to slip away, but the big chest I used to keep them in is smaller than a shoebox now. Most of the time, I feel so ashamed about this that I do not own up to it unless someone else mentions it first. […]
Search for God – Aug. 4, 2021
“Though by and large the Church has not known how integral the search for self is to the search for God, her saints have always preached that the two are inextricably bound together. Brother Lawrence is reported to have said, “When we enter upon the spiritual life, we should consider and examine to the bottom […]
Names or Numbers? – July 27, 2021
“To write a story is an act of Naming; in reading about a protagonist I can grow along with, I am more named. And we live in a world which would reduce us to our social security numbers. Area codes, zip codes, credit card codes, all take precedence over our names. Our signatures already mean […]
