Do More, Be More, Have More
Right after his glorious confirmation, right after being assured of his place and purpose—“This is my beloved, in whom I am well pleased”—Jesus faces the wilderness.* Great assurance, followed by great difficulty. Is it possible we heard wrong our calling? Have we strayed from the path? Surely God does not mean for the way to […]
The First Step to Healing – Dec. 11, 2019
“As any good therapist will tell you, you cannot heal what you do not acknowledge, and what you do not consciously acknowledge will remain in control of you from within, festering and destroying you and those around you.” –Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
How Do We Know?
I’ll confess right here: in my youth, I spent a good bit of psychic energy wrestling with myself and others over the question of whether Jesus’ post-Resurrection appearances could have been captured by a video camera. Behind the question was my tacit assumption that if the answer were, “No, a videotape would have shown nothing,” […]
