Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; rather, seek what they sought.1 —Gautama Buddha
By most estimates, 70 percent of our sense receptors are located in our eyes. When they are working, they can take over most of the duties of all other senses.
Anyone who stands up in front of other human beings to speak knows what a frightful gift it is. This power of ours has no safety catch on it. We are as likely to make nothing out of something as the o...
Although I never found a church where I felt completely at home again, I made a new home in the world. I renewed my membership in the priesthood of all believers, who may not have as much power as we...
The degree to which we believe our faith is what makes us human is the same degree to which we will question the humanity of those who do not share our faith.7
We have just enough religion to make us hate one another, Jonathan Swift once observed, but not enough to make us love one another.
In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life.
For reasons no one may ever understand, God decided it would be helpful for people to be different instead of the same, if only because it would slow them down a little bit. God decided it would be go...
A priest is someone willing to stand between a God and a people who are longing for one another's love, turning back and forth between them with no hope of tending either as well as each deserves. To...
I had arrived at an understanding of faith that had far more to do with trust than with certainty. I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure. I trusted God to sustain the wo...
once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices ...Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be mo...
About that too, ma’am, he said, writing up her citation, but what made
To see takes time, like having a friend takes time. It is as simple as turning off the television to learn the song of a single bird. Why should anyone do such things? I cannot imagine—unless one is w...
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, he said, by the grace of God.
Some are questioning whether the churches they grew up in have anything to offer them as they make their ways in a culture of many cultures with many views of truth, some of which make a great deal of...
In a quip that makes the rounds, Jesus preached the coming of the kingdom, but it was the church that came. All these years later, the way many of us are doing church is broken and we know it, even if...
I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.
I know that the Bible is a special kind of book, but I find it as seductive as any other. If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin...
During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sun to see them.
Committing myself to the task of becoming fully human is saving my life now...to become fully human is something extra, a conscious choice that not everyone makes. Based on my limited wisdom and exper...