COURAGEOUS HOSPITALITY
“In any group mediation process there’s always a point where someone in the room — with courage, with worry, with anxiety — names something they’ve […]
Journals
SMOOTH HANDS
I’m on my fifth or sixth year of smooth hands. I do not remember in my life when my hands were completely smooth. By that […]
TWO-LEGGED ANIMALS
There is a Latin phrase (ani-mac bi-pes im-plu-me), which means a two-legged animal without feathers (i.e. the human race). This is what separates us from […]
READY FOR A FIGHT
Military strategist Sun Tzu (544 BC- 496 BC) on preparation: “The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, […]
THE KINGDOM AND THE CHURCH
E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) Methodist missionary wrote, “The Kingdom of the Church must bend the knee to the Kingdom of God. Just as we want […]
PRAY TO GOD FOR GLADNESS
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) wrote, “My friends, pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of […]
NOTHING AND SOMETHING
One fourth of nothing is nothing.Half of nothing is nothing.Three fourths of nothing is nothing.Nothing of nothing is nothing.Nothing is nothing. One fourth of something […]
SON OF MAN
One of the favorite terms that Jesus chose to call himself was the Son of Man. Repeatedly he preferred this term to others, especially the […]
SAME PRECIOUS LOVE
Julian of Norwich (1343-1416) wrote, “Both when we fall and when we get up again we are kept in the same precious love.” “Love your […]
WHEN FAITH BECOMES AN HEIRLOOM
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Jewish rabbi and philosopher wrote, “It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in […]