I turned and looked directly into the boy’s face. The laughing and trash-talking paused for a moment.
The Why
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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.
Singing Stones
“Well,” my mother said “Jesus said that the stones could sing, not that they did.”
“Well,” I said, undaunted, “could they?”
The Perfume Controversy
It seems like the gospel writer is sneaking in little mean hearted comments just to make sure that we don’t mistake Judas’ remark for the remark of a caring person. Because, on the surface of it, it does seem like the objection of a caring person.