Fishing for Delight
When the call went out for writers for this season of Inward/Outward, I was more focused on my very busy schedule than on the assigned Gospel readings for each week. Picking a week when I thought that I would have time and energy to write, I hadn’t even looked at the text until early this […]
Holding Opposites – July 9, 2021
“One of the most subtle ways to avoid imitating someone is to put them on a pedestal, above and apart from us. When you accept that Jesus was not merely divine but human as well, you can begin to see how you are not separate from Jesus. Open yourself to recognizing the great paradoxes within […]
Shining Like the Sun – May 17, 2021
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking […]
As Settlers – June 22, 2020
“Human beings are settlers, but not in the pioneer sense. It is our human occupational hazard to settle for little. We settle for purity and piety when we are being invited to an exquisite holiness. We settle for the fear-driven when love longs to be our engine. We settle for a puny, vindictive God when […]
