I dutifully said my prayers (Our Father) before bed every night with my father standing by to supervise the proceedings. I don’t know why my dad posed me the way he did. The photo shown is not even a true re-enactment of the event. I did it on my knees on the floor,...
(*** This picture is my wood-cut/block print of my favorite theologian Karl Barth, based on the last photograph of him alive.) In the old days when there weren't so many books, people would stay with a book for a long time. Then, people would sink into a book and live...
A few years later at the ripe old age of 13 I was confirmed in a ceremony, where my dad warned me beforehand that the Bishop would slap me in the face. Dad thought it was funny. I didn’t, I was properly terrified. Of course no such thing happened. The Bishop...
Pete Seeger is dead at 94. He was chopping wood 10 days ago. He co-wrote "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", one of America's most iconic songs. Hence the cartoon. What was Seeger's spirituality? There's this: When asked about his religious or spiritual views, Seeger...
I saw this image the other day of Orthodox priests praying between the police and protesters in Kiev during the riots. It's a powerful image that reminds me of an apocalyptic computer game. It moved me deeply. I'm often asked how I pray. This is intimately related to...
Wouldn't it be lovely if we could suddenly live our lives with no anxiety at all and no ambiguity? We would fulfill the preachers' cry that demands we must not worry and that we should not doubt, that we should always be at peace and clear on what is true and not...
One of the biggest problems with religion is that it focuses on the fruit rather than the root. Remember the parable Jesus told about the gardner who found the tree that wasn't bearing any fruit and he was going to dig it up and burn it? The owner said to dig around...
This is a mini-memoir describing and focusing on the process, deconstruction and remaining journey of my religious and spiritual life as I have experienced it in the 51 years I have inhabited this planet. This life of mine is a meandering and conflicting story, a sort...
I joined Lasting Supper to continue my spiritual journey and to find an accepting community within which to do so. Not knowing exactly how to begin, I’ve been reading other’s posts and thinking a lot about what I wanted to say. So in trying to decide how to start I...
I woke up early this morning to see Lisa off to work. She's working in Hospice today. She suggested when I meditated this morning I should look out the window at that scene. The full moon is shining over the ice of the river, the lights from the opposite shore...
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