An Unorganized Religion – Aug. 16, 2022
“As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and […]
Transformation – June 2, 2022
“For years I’ve told stories in teaching and, from time to time, at storytelling festivals and conferences. But this experience of being heard by a handful of pine trees in an Ozark wilderness finally pushed me over the edge, requiring that I acknowledge—humbly, and with amazement—that I, too, am a storyteller. A storyteller is one […]
God Is Nearby – May 4, 2022
“Christians throughout the ages have found… a God who takes the initiative, a God who is always beforehand with men, seeking them before they seek him. Jesus presents to us a “seeking” God whose very nature it is to go the whole way into the wilderness in quest of man. This morning I challenge you […]
Greening Power
I am still reflecting on the silent retreat day at Dayspring this week. An unseasonably warm late-winter day, our time began with an overcast sky, a soft, warm breeze and bright birdsong. The cloudy sky was like a vast blanket of cotton balls scudding west across meadow and forest. Hildegard’s poem about the ever-creating Source of all […]
