Thomas Merton Square
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Nonduality, Seen on the Web, Teacher / Practice | 2 Comments »The Louisville Metro Council last month named the intersection of 4th and Muhommad Ali Blvd. "Thomas Merton Square," in honor of Fr. Thomas Merton's epiphany. To my knowledge, this is the only occasion of any government recognizing an event related ...
We Manipulate God for YOU!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Humor, Jesus / Christianity, Seen on the Web | 8 Comments »OK, I grew up (mostly by choice) in Evangelicalism, and when I started branching out from that I became aware of the abuses of that kind of religion, as well as of religion in general. To put in bluntly, I've ...
Merry Subversion!
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 7 Comments »I'm having a subversive Christmas. I'm thinking about the subversiveness of the Christmas story. Why subversive? Spirituality is by its nature subversive... it sees significance and meaning beyond the material... that something is going on behind the "seen". Awakening (what I usually ...
Mysticism and Religion
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 14 Comments »To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not mourn.'... ...
Dear Madeleine
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 Posted in Books, Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »Madeleine L'Engle has passed on. Although really the most appropriate thing to say would be "Congrats!", I do find my eyes getting a bit moist thinking about it. Why? Well, that's a long story, but I've got plenty of time. Let's ...
Mysticism and sexuality
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 17 Comments »I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post. I also want to clarify and dig deeper into part of the huge area I addressed in it. What I was really wondering when I asked "why is ...
sex
Sunday, August 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 16 Comments »Ah, so I got your attention! Yesterday, I wrote my first poem in Esperanto... unfortunately, I neglected to save it on my computer, and when my machine did one of its random reboots, it was lost and I haven't been ...
Punctuate this.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 10 Comments »Add the missing punctuation to Jesus' saying: take heed that no one deceives you for many shall come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many If you're like most people familiar with the verse, you probably punctuated ...
The Sweet Pain
Monday, March 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | 2 Comments »In 1998, I began writing a long poem, an epic poem, on the life of Christ. After about six weeks, I stopped writing it (though it didn't leave me). What I was unprepared for was the intensity of his Presence ...
The Golden Path has been shortened
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, My Life, Spirituality | 7 Comments »Every now and then, I see a message in something objectively ordinary and meaningless, but subjectively a divine message. Today, as I walked away from work to my car, I took a shortcut through a Dillard's store. There, on what ...
