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Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
~ Ram Dass
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Today’s Life-Line is:
The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew that I saw all things in God and God in all things.
~ Mechtilde of Magdeburg
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God’s Yes!
The renowned Protestant theologian Karl Barth travelled to America and delivered a series of lectures at Princeton Seminary. At the end of one of these talks, a seminary student rose and asked, “My dear Dr. Barth, could you, in one line, sum up the Read more [...]
Participating in the Exchange of Love
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and God’s love is perfected in us. . . .God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides Read more [...]
Where Are You?
"If you hallow this life you meet the living God "
~ Martin Buber
In 1961, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut who was the first person to orbit earth, dropped the already frigid temperature of the Cold War era even further when Read more [...]
The Extravagance of God’s Love
The incarnation is not only salvific but revelatory. What among the many things God reveals by becoming human is that daily living itself is holy, making the particularity of my life and your life dignified, significant, and sacred. By becoming human, Read more [...]
Veriditas: The Greening Power of God
Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose. . .
~ James Taylor
I am a Northwesterner at heart. Born and raised in Seattle, I went to the university only 50 miles south. My first place of employment and my first home had views of 14,400 foot Mt. Rainier. Read more [...]
A Prodigal Love
Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent Lk. 15:11-32
The lectionary readings these last few days have juxtaposed vivid, earthy stories and texts that show, on the one hand, human ignominy, deviousness, jealousy, and malice, and on the other hand, human integrity, Read more [...]
Tzimtzum: The First Folly of God
Whatever your personal cosmogony, the Jewish-Christian scriptures place great emphasis on the idea of creation. Literate Jews, Catholics, and main-line Protestants have little time or patience for the repartee between rigid fundamentalist Christians and Read more [...]
A Noble Trajectory
Recently, someone relayed to me their story of growing up as a Christian Fundamentalist. She recalled how her minister, prominent in Fundamentalist’s circles, had a propensity for deciding and proclaiming whether or not other persons (including renowned Read more [...]