But I know that I have an easier time loving humankind than I do loving particular human beings.
Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and mos...
What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going...
WHEN YOU LIVE IN GOD, your day begins when you open your eyes, though you have done nothing yourself to open them, and you take your first breath, though there is no reason why this life-giving breeze...
This is good, and all good things cast shadows.
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
Somewhere along the line we bought—or were sold—the idea that God is chiefly interested in religion. We believed that God’s home was
So of course when it came time to decide what to do with my life, I decided to go to seminary. What else do you do when you are in love with God?
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
People ask me: why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do? The easiest answer is to say...
Our shadows are often behind us, where others can see them better than we can.
Or my eyes go back to seeing it that way. When I entered the cave hoping for a glimpse of celestial brightness, it never occurred to me that it might be so small. But here it is, not much bigger than...
In his book 'God and the Universe of Faiths,' British theologian John Hick makes a compelling argument. Before Copernicus, he says, earthlings believed they occupied the center of the universe - and w...
If Jesus meant for his followers to rule the world, then why did he teach them to wash feet?
If I had to name my disability, I would call it an unwillingness to fall. On the one hand, this is perfectly normal. I do not know anyone who likes to fall. But, on the other hand, this reluctance sig...
I would have to say that at least one of the things that almost killed me was becoming a professional holy person. I am not sure that the deadliness was in the job as much as it was in the way I did i...
I wish I could turn to the church for help, but so many congregations are preoccupied with keeping the lights on right now that the last thing they want to talk about is how to befriend the dark.
I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.
I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness...
For those willing to keep heaving themselves toward the light, things can change. What has been lost gradually becomes less important than what is to be found. Curiosity pokes its green head up throug...