Tag Archives: Reality
When Things Are Unveiled
A Time of Unveiling When Things Are Unveiling Friday, January 8, 2021 I have read the scriptures since childhood and preached on them continually over the last fifty years in my role as a priest; but over the last year, I’ve found myself drawn to them in a different way. I have been looking, if not… Continue Reading When Things Are Unveiled
The True Patterns of the Universe
A Time of Unveiling The True Patterns of the Universe Thursday, January 7, 2021 Truth is One. If something is spiritually true, then all disciplines and religions will somehow be looking at this “one truth” from different angles, goals, assumptions, and vocabulary. If it is the truth, it is true all the time and everywhere, and… Continue Reading The True Patterns of the Universe
The Reign of God
Jesus and the Reign of God The Reign of God Sunday, November 15, 2020 Jesus announced, lived, and inaugurated for history a new social order. He called it the Reign or Kingdom of God and it became the guiding image of his entire ministry. The Reign of God is the subject of Jesus’ inaugural address… Continue Reading The Reign of God
A Silent Love
Thomas Keating: The Secret Embrace, Part Two A Silent Love Monday, October 26, 2020 Nowhere is my destination. And no one is my identity. My daily bread is powerlessness. Temptations can be overwhelming. Gone is every hope of help. An abyss opens up within me. I am falling, falling, Plunging into non-existence. Is this annihilation?… Continue Reading A Silent Love
Separateness Is Suffering
True Self/Separate Self Separateness Is Suffering Thursday, September 3, 2020 The idea of the two “selves” within every individual—the True Self and the separate self—is a part of the perennial wisdom and a pathway for transformation in most faith traditions. I share the thoughts of two writers, a rabbi and a Sufi Shaikh (elder), on… Continue Reading Separateness Is Suffering
My Story, Our Story, THE Story
Order, Disorder, Reorder: Part Three My Story, Our Story, THE Story Friday, August 28, 2020 Only the whole self is ever ready for the whole God, so Reorder always involves moving beyond the dualistic mind toward a more spacious, contemplative knowing. In fact, if we are going to rebuild society, we first need to be… Continue Reading My Story, Our Story, THE Story
Reality Initiating Us: Part One: Weekly Summary
Reality Initiating Us: Part One Summary: Sunday, March 29–Friday, April 3, 2020 In this time of global crisis, it may be that reality is revealing itself to us—through great suffering—universal patterns that are always true. (Sunday) We do not handle suffering; suffering handles us— in deep and mysterious ways that become the very matrix of… Continue Reading Reality Initiating Us: Part One: Weekly Summary