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, […]

Only Love Heals – Jan. 7, 2022

  Most Merciful Sustainer of My Life:   Your love is the holy meaning of life. Your love surges to bring all life into being and carries me into your promised beyond. Your love heals broken hearts and mends fractured homes and nations. Your love speaks in the middle of the night when I feel […]

Sunday Worship – June 25, 2021

“The primary effect of Sunday worship is insertion into community. At least in my socio-economic class, persons are increasingly alone, eating at the microwave, commuting by oneself, watching one’s favorite programs alone on one of the household TVs. I hear that bowling as a hobby continues strong, but that membership in bowling clubs is down. […]

In Us All – June 24, 2021

“The One-in-Three might signify something like this: The One is about transcendence, about being beyond the universe, the mystery that precedes the big bang and that remains after my death. I am, alas, thank goodness, not god/goddess; the ultimate reality is other than me, prior to me, and I must be in relation to it. […]