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January 2018

January 30, 2018

On Submission

At times each of us can become uncomfortable with total responsibility for our lives. But,...

January 23, 2018

Unless the Earth Is Born Again…

It happened during recess, on the playground of Rathpeacon National School sometime in...

January 16, 2018

“Politics and Religion: Oil and Water?” Part 2: Perceptions of God and Pain

"The question is not why God made a universe that includes suffering, but why does...

January 09, 2018

From Source, to Soul, to Ego and Back – Essay Four

The sacraments of evolution continue even after physical death. The sense of separate self, that...

January 03, 2018

“Politics and Religion: Oil and Water?” – Part 1: Unprovable Givens

Truths are introduced into the world by us. You don’t prove music exists; rather, you...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

From Source, to Soul, to Ego and Back – Essay Three

All souls are precious, bite-sized pieces of God. But in order to incarnate, we have...

December 12, 2017

From Source, to Soul, to Ego and Back – Essay Two

Sunbeams are emanations from the sun, yet they appear to be distinct from each other...

December 06, 2017

Harassment and the Two Types of Sex

There are two fundamental forces at work in how we relate to each other: love...

November 2017

November 28, 2017

From Source, to Soul, to Ego and Back – Essay One

What are sacraments? Sacraments are the sacred understandings and celebrations of the milestones and the...

November 22, 2017

What Is Jesus Asking of Us?

What if I had known the charismatic god/man Jesus? What if I had listened to...

November 16, 2017

Have You Time for A Think?

Isn’t it strange that, even as we live longer and longer, we seem to have...

November 08, 2017

Mending the Web

Our world is a beautiful web of life, a responsive web of interconnectedness. We are...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

When Intention Becomes Prayer

Like never before, there is a need to get behind the rope of hope, of...

October 24, 2017

Schrödinger’s Restaurant

There's this question of creating reality. The problem is that all of us are creating...

October 17, 2017

The De-Mythologized Life Is Not Worth Living

Stories are the archived wisdom of any culture, and pithy proverbs its distillation - the...

October 10, 2017

ASCETICISM 2.0

What is the purpose of asceticism? Human nature seems able to turn almost anything into...

October 03, 2017

The Religious Dilemma: Fundamentalism or Mysticism (the Road Less Traveled)?

Religion should be the training wheels for spirituality – to be discarded once the practitioner...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

In Whose Computer Game Are We Living?

Whatever can be sensed, remembered, dreamed, imagined, felt, thought up or thought about exists in...

September 20, 2017

In Defense of Eve – Re-Visiting the Garden of Eden

In the conventional interpretation of the story of The Fall, Eve bears the brunt of...

September 13, 2017

What Is Intelligent?

Just because mountains don’t win Nobel Prizes or write poetry in a way comprehensible to...

September 05, 2017

The Myth of the Given

Jesus said, “In my father’s house, there are many mansions.” Could this quote refer perhaps...

August 2017

August 29, 2017

God of the Intellect, God of the Heart

Growing up my religious education was limited to an hour a week in Sunday school....

August 22, 2017

What is Alive?

A Socratic voice asked, “What is alive?” I found this to be a strange question,...

August 15, 2017

Losing (and Finding) God in the Details

To say we live lives overburdened by details is a ridiculous understatement. Did humankind ever...

August 08, 2017

Shiva Is at It Again – Thank God!

Brahma is creator, Shiva is re-creator - the genius who disassembles old configurations and recombines...

August 01, 2017

How Liberals and Conservatives Miscommunicate

On both sides of the aisle, people are variously puzzled, outraged, and mystified by those...

July 2017

July 25, 2017

Turning Toward the World, Part 6: Metanoia and Renewal

"Isn’t this what we were invited to do all along: to renew ourselves? and in...

July 18, 2017

How Long Before Heaven Gets Boring?

What is heaven really about? The idea, I mean, not the state or place.

July 11, 2017

Turning Toward the World, Part 5: From Blaming to Building

"Only the bad guys of fiction sense that they’re evil; most of the evil in...

July 05, 2017

When We Love to Hate

What is your greatest strength, or your ultimate defense mechanism? This an even more important...

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