This is good, and all good things cast shadows.
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.
We have just enough religion to make us hate one another, Jonathan Swift once observed, but not enough to make us love one another.
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...
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...
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
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.
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...
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...
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...
When we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling...
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
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...
I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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.
When we arrived in this large room, Rockwell put a fluorescent marker down where we entered so we could find the way back out again. When Hurd failed to do that, her teacher corrected her. In a cave,...