The Only Protection from Betrayal – Apr. 3, 2023

“Created in the divine image and likeness, we can experience and express that divine likeness only through the bond of social and community relatedness. The only protection from betrayal is not to love, never to trust. The only security against becoming a Judas is never to become a disciple.” –Ray Anderson, The Gospel According to Judas (Helmers & Howard, […]

Original Blessing – Nov. 1, 2022

“If a child grows up being told she is ugly or stupid or selfish, at some level, she comes to believe that about herself. The descriptions haunt her self-understanding, and she lives in a state of doubt about her deepest identity. This is exactly what has happened in relation to the doctrine of original sin, […]

Finding Light – Oct. 31, 2022

“At the end of my talk [focused on John 1:9],  a Mohawk elder, who had been invited to comment on the common ground between Celtic spirituality and the native spirituality of his people, stood with tears in his eyes.  He said, “As I have listened to these themes, I have been wondering where I would […]