Our Christianity has become preoccupied with doctrine, what we believe rather than practice - how we live. In Jesus, we do not just see a...

A Christian cannot be autonomous; it is as impossible as an arm or leg independent of a body. The community, the church, is the living...

Most of us consider our emotions essentially identical to our personal authenticity, and the more freely we let them flow, the more...

Jesus asserted the spirituality of imperfection in the parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee (Luke 18:9–14.) Jesus invites us to...

Prophets can foretell the future, not as fortune-tellers, but as people who have learned to read the signs of their times. By becoming...

Jesus did not theorize about social justice, instead, he set himself as an example of how to live in this world. He exhorted his...

There is no other form of the Christian life except a common one. This is even a matter of culture, which is shared and passed on. Until...

God brought things into being so that his goodness may be communicated to and be represented by them. He produced many and diverse...

Our deep awareness of God’s grace results in profound gratitude. Both “gratitude” and “grace” come from the same Latin root word,...

It is in silence that we find all we need to live a life of peace and service. In the silence of the heart God speaks. In silence we...

When Jesus said that we must “lose ourselves to find ourselves” (Mark 8:35) he was referring to the necessary death of our “False Self.”...

In the Hebrew Scriptures, God’s covenant transformed from a bilateral covenant (“You do that and I’ll do this”) as in the covenants with...

Our dualistic mind is consumed by counting and measuring how moral you and I are. It weighs everything and moves toward quick resolution...

In the early Christian era, a few from the Eastern Church realized that Christ was clearly something older, larger, and different from...

The apostles misunderstood Jesus’ being the messiah. They did not yet realize that the salvation Christ would bring required much...

In spite of the unity of all creation, we mistakenly emphasized our beginning with original sin instead of original blessing – the...

Hebrew prophets were free to love their tradition and to criticize it at the same time. Similarly, we need to understand that criticizing...

Intimacy is a capacity for closeness and tenderness. It is often disclosed in moments of risky self-disclosure. Intimacy makes all love...

Jesus’ invitation to “Come follow me” is closely related to the practice of prayer. Prayer is a participation in God’s love, the activity...

God’s very own life shared with us and residing within us is the Holy Spirit (John 20:22). When we truly pray, we are resolutely refusing...