I love how author Brian Doyle writes about prayer: "I have never thought that prayers of request can be answered; I do not think that is the way of the Mercy; yet we do whisper prayers of supplication; I think we always have, since long before our species arrived in this form. Sometimes I think […]

One thing I despise is simple answers to questions about prayer. There is something that rings so false to me when people act like they have prayer and God all figured out. As if God could ever be "figured out." As if prayer is like some kind of cosmic slot machine. This is why I […]

A brief thought of poem for the weekend, friends ... "We belong to a Mystery far grander than our little selves and our little time." (Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life)

I read this short essay over and over and over again and seek to live it out every day. Finding New Questions We have ceased trying to tie up all loose ends. We have discovered that life does not need to be neat. We have more questions than answers, and this is a great delight […]

Straight up Padraig O'Tuama today, no commentary. The Zulus have it right, though, in one of their names for God. They call God uNkulunkulu, translating loosely as Big-Big. When I heard that, I wondered at the genius who began to speak of the unnameable in such a way, and then I thought of my friend […]

So many questions these days about the Bible, and what certain parts of it mean … So many opinions on the Bible and all kinds of arrogant announcements that certain folks have ALL the answers about what it all means ... Know what? I don’t have answers. I actually have more questions than answers. The […]