Love and mystery must be at the core of religion. If it is not, it is perilously easy for religion to become a tool of power.
A Sacred Collaboration
Sermons
The Still Point
Strip away all the trappings of human society, and you are left with an inevitable question: Am I alone?
The Why
I turned and looked directly into the boy’s face. The laughing and trash-talking paused for a moment.
The Most Intimate Language
You cannot tell religion in some language that is not really the first language of the people.
You-niversality
When you hear these things, you recognize in them a kind of vitality, a truth that makes it seems like you have known them all along.
Down by the Sea of Tiberias
Each threshold has within it some element of fear – some deep mystery that makes us uneasy.
And where there is mystery… Where there is transformation… There is God.
Helicopter Egg Drop Soup
The problem with associating spectacle with religion, is that spectacle does not like to share.
It uses up all the air in the room
It exists for its own sake.