Values Over Beliefs – Jan. 19, 2022
“The challenge as I see it is what I call the unbinding of Christianity that shifts its meaning from beliefs, creeds, and doctrines to the values Jesus actually talked about… I am not suggesting that there are no normative beliefs in Christianity, only that history and diversity of their development don’t justify using them as […]
A Practice – Oct. 14, 2021
“A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.” —Wendell Berry, from the essay “The Idea of a Local Economy“, Orion Magazine
Family Values
So, what does Jesus have to say on the topic of family values? Everyone recognizes this as a loaded question, a political question, the kind that gets asked to trip up a person and obscure real answers. They try to trap him by asking, “Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?” His response […]
Holy Revision – Jan. 28, 2019
“Under the silent, watchful eye of the Holy One we are all standing, whether we know it or not. And in that Center, in that holy Abyss where the Eternal dwells at the base of our being, our programs, our gifts to God, our offerings of duties performed are again and again revised in their […]
