The Risk – July 21, 2022
“‘I am the gate,’ said Jesus. Following his way is often a matter of taking the chain off the post and crossing an unfamiliar field. You take the risk.” —Diana Butler Bass, Freeing Jesus, p. 200
Who Are You? – July 18, 2022
“Paul’s first question intrigues me. He asked of Jesus, ‘Who are you?’ not ‘What are you doing?’ or ‘Why are you talking to me?’ ‘Who’ is a relational question, a question that opens us toward companionship, friendship, and perhaps even love…To know ‘who’ is an invitation into a relationship that can – if we let […]
One Essential Unity
The Gospel today is a hallmark scripture for the Trinity, the theological Essential Unity in the Christian tradition.* Theology, cosmology, psychology, biology, so many “ologies” I can think of, increasingly speak to me of an essential unity. That unity may show up with different names, like energy, God, harmony, wholeness. As my life unfolds in this fragmented, […]
Seeking Guidance – Sep. 2, 2021
“Guidance is about hearing the inner voice in us that keeps us clearly connected with God’s ways, giving us direction for our lives. It’s not that our lives are all mapped out for us by God. The path is rarely a clear, visible, neatly defined one. No, rather, Divine Wisdom helps us to discover, each […]
