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Our vocation is to hang in there together
Our vocation is to hang in there together
An act of peacemaking.
An act of peacemaking.
Listening to others and welcoming the stranger
Listening to others and welcoming the stranger
Toward a Theology of Onions
A first step in developing a theology of onions is to recognize how beautiful they are. When I watched the video above from the Spiritual Literacy DVD series, using the words of Mary Hays G…
Imagining the world from a beetle's point of view
Imagining the world from a beetle's point of view
Sympathetic Joy as a Spiritual Gift
I’ve discovered a new word and I want to share it with you. It’s called midding. Here’s the definition as found in John Koenig’s Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:
midding
v. intr. feeling t…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Six High Ideals
"Rosh Ha-Shanah is a time for us to contemplate our highest ideals and our actual behavior. We make amends to ourselves, to one another, and to God for the gap." So writes Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artso…
Pop Songs as Postmodern Angels
Not a lot of my liberal friends believe in angels, but I do. I am, after all, a process theologian.
I think pop songs are angels. They fly through the air with their sonic wings, carrying their k…
Playing Hide and Seek with God
I've been playing hide and seek with God most of my life. Sometimes I hide from God and sometimes God hides from me. I think I've discerned a pattern: Whenever I become confident that God is found i…
Perpetual Wonder: A Spiritual Virtue
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
— Alice Walker
In the spiritual alphabet offered by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat…