What a timely find in this article written by Jeremy Beer about the Communio movement within the Catholic church and David L. Schindler, author of Being Holy in the World and Ordering Love. How refreshing to read his perspective about the nature and meaning of life as being relational, to God, to onself and to others and the primacy …
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Less than zero
So, what exactly is it that people are doing with their lives? That is the question that carried me through the next few years following the big dream. Feeling that some semblance of sanity had returned it seemed that life was waiting for me to finally cut a path through the heart of my existence. …
Amazing Journey Part II
The last day of the last trip to Eliot, Maine, where I spent a week at the Baha'i summer camp, something happened as I was leaving. As I stood looking around the dormitory where I had stayed the past week, I became overwhelmed with a parting sadness. In a completely spontaneous burst of emotion predicated on no particular …
Amazing journeys…Part One
In the fifty or so years of my life I have tried on a lot of different cosmologies: Methodist/Congregational - the religion of my parents, probably going back for quite a few generations on both sides of my family. Although I attended church and Sunday school throughout my childhood, not much of what the Christianity of …
First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
I have always been a believer in one thing or another. As a child, the idea of God was incomprehensible. What, or who, were people talking about? I can recall mercilessly teasing a catholic friend, that it must be awful to have to follow the rules of the Pope. No doubt that taunt had its roots in my parents …
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