A Person with Ubuntu – May 4, 2023
“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others […]
On the Way: Resurrection
Easter morning at my church we were encouraged to be attentive in the days and weeks ahead to sightings of the Risen Christ and to then share those experiences with each other, much like what happened with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.* In preparation, I have been pondering what I see in […]
We Are Inspirited Flesh – Aug. 24, 2022
“Let us say it again: the spiritual life extends not only to the concerns of the soul, but to the life of the whole human person. The whole takes first place, rather than the parts. The human person is not a soul and a body, but inspirited flesh, an animated body. One is one’s body […]
Harmony of the Whole
Until this past Sunday we had not worshipped in the woods for two years. We had become accustomed to our hybrid church in-person and on Zoom. And yet, even though that technology would not be possible in the woods at Dayspring, the Spirit moved us to go. I knew my heart had withered in some way […]
