“Everything that rises will converge” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Creation is a process that is still happening and winding up, and even...

There is no Catholic or Baptist way of compassion and forgiveness. There is no Methodist or Orthodox way of helping the poor. There is no...

We tend to make a very unfortunate, yet understandable, division between the sacred and the profane worlds. Early-stage religion limits...

Jesus deeply respected and lived his reality fully and completely. Learning to extend this kind of esteem to reality that is revealed to...

In Jesus, we clearly see God taking sides. It starts with Jesus emptying himself of all divinity (Philippians 2:6-7), coming as a...

The history of politics and of the church has been written and controlled by people with access, power, and education to write books and...

“The truth will set you free” (John 8:32). True spirituality is about letting go. Once we see what keeps us trapped, the consequent...

A paradox is something that initially looks like a contradiction, but going deeper, it isn’t necessarily so. Jesus is the living paradox,...

“A good poem makes nothing happen. It solves no outer problem. It is inherently contemplative.” – Jane Hirshfield Mythos, is the language...

The Apostle Paul used polemics in his writing, navigating two opposite ideas to lead us to a third and deeper understanding. One of his...

God is love and God loves. We need to realize that love is what existence is made of. Where there is energy of attraction, union,...

We grow by becoming. It is necessary that we integrate our spiritual learnings and discoveries into our very being. Allow me to share...

Purity is a singleness, when the head and the heart work together allowing us to see wholeness, to see from our True Self. Purity is also...

When we live from our true self in God, religion ceases to be about requirements, but about relationships, the quality and capacity of...

Developing a relationship with God and the acquisition of wisdom both require two paths, that of knowing and not knowing; that of...

Like the heartfelt laments in the Psalms, blues artists openly engage in life issues. The lyrics are straightforward and sometimes...

In spirituality, there is equivalence, symbiosis, and mutuality between the observer and the seen. The world of things is a transparent...

Far more than we ever could through our joys, successes, and strengths, we bind more deeply with God when we call out for help, with our...

When we begin to move in love, we bring the Gospel to life because we are each concrete, tangible expressions of God’s presence. We give...

Each of us has an inner program for happiness – how we can be secure, esteemed, and in control. We, however, are unaware that these...