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Tag Archives: commitment

Be Resurrection 

Huldah: A Trustworthy Prophet

Justice is Love in Action

Don’t be afraid to have a heart and to risk breaking your heart. Continue Reading Justice is Love in Action

Aligning Ourselves with God’s Heart

God wills the liberation of all human beings. Continue Reading Aligning Ourselves with God’s Heart

God’s Shalom and Racial Justice

When love enters the equation, everything changes. We ask ourselves what we’re for instead of what we’re against. Continue Reading God’s Shalom and Racial Justice

The Spirit of Francis

Like Francis and Clare, we need to become earth-loving saints, committed to our planet and its peoples. Continue Reading The Spirit of Francis

Mystical Hope: Weekly Summary

Mystical Hope Saturday, December 11, 2021 Week Forty-Nine Summary and Practice Sunday, December 5, 2021—Friday, December 10, 2021 Sunday Hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without full closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves. —Richard… Continue Reading Mystical Hope: Weekly Summary

Good Grief

Everybody Grieves Good Grief Wednesday, August 4, 2021 When someone you love very much dies, the sky falls. And so you walk around under a fallen sky. —Mirabai Starr, Caravan of No Despair My dear friend Mirabai Starr has suffered many losses in her life, including that of her fourteen-year-old daughter Jenny, which Mirabai writes… Continue Reading Good Grief

The Work That Reconnects

The Contemplative Call to Nature The Work That Reconnects Friday, April 23, 2021 A few years ago, some members of our CAC community and I were blessed to be able to spend a week at Ghost Ranch with Joanna Macy. Joanna is a brilliant Buddhist teacher, a systems thinker, deep ecologist, and activist for peace,… Continue Reading The Work That Reconnects

Joining the Prophetic Chorus

Prophetic Imagination Joining the Prophetic Chorus Friday, March 26, 2021 While the most well-known Hebrew prophets are presumably male, such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, the Bible also contains little-known women prophets such as Deborah (Judges 4:4–5), Huldah (2 Kings 22) and Anna (mentioned in Luke 2:36). Rabbi Tikva Frymer-Kensky shares one example of this… Continue Reading Joining the Prophetic Chorus

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