Featured: The dissolution of a dream ...
A big, beautiful spider has set up her home outside my kitchen window. I have grown attached to her presence and greet her each morning, watching her work or sleep while I take my first few sips of coffee. For those who hate spiders, I see you. But she is where she belongs (outside) and […]
TS Eliot said, "Poetry may make us ... a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
For the last 2 days, I have found myself in a court room watching jury selection for a double-murder trial take place. I was not there for fun. I was part of a group of 75 citizens called in to potentially make up a jury pool for this case. I was one person away from […]
"I believe he [Jesus] says it to all of us: to feed his sheep, his lambs, to be sure, but first to let him feed us - to let him feed us with something of himself. In the sip of wine and crumb of bread. In the dance of sun and water and sky. In […]
My daughter, Hannah, majored in Anthropology and Sociology, with a minor in Islamic Studies ... She had some amazing professors, and learned so much about the Muslim faith outside of the daily news cycle and the histrionics of the media. In many ways, Muslims and Christians have more in common than we know ... mainly, […]
What really separates us from God? Is it sin, or something else? I have been pondering this question lately. Listen to this: "Our misdeeds are not the real root of the problem. They are just what the tradition called actual sins. There is a much more serious problem, what the tradition called original sin. It […]
