Category: Speaking to the Soul

I Do Not Know You

“Perhaps we need to heed the plight of the Foolish Virgins, and adhere to a life of Spirit, living in Christ.”

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Dancing!

“Despite Michel’s love for David, there is no indication from either the text or the tradition that David loved her.”

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Gathered In

“He was, with God’s encouragement, giving up his primary role and was seeing something he had been involved with for most of his adult life moving on without him.”

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Speaking of God

“How I yearned for wise men and women who were willing to talk about their faith with friends and neighbors.  Where were the folks who were mature in their relationship with God and willing to own that their daily prayer life was the deep nourishment of their lives?”

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Boundary-less Belonging

“Because identity is so critical for our lives—because it gives us the power to “do what needs to be done,” people grasp at a false sense of belonging, grasping for a sense of identity that empowers them and makes them feel safe. People go to “race” and nation in their quest for identity.”

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God Embraces You

“Precious child of God, you are not alone. You will always be caught. You will always have arms reaching out to you. You will always be embraced.”

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Woe to You Hypocrites

“I claim that what Jesus taught was not political, although it clearly crossed the political lines of the day, as it does today. He was focused on a life of faith, of obedience, of love.”

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Mocking

The anonymous writer says that the kind of mocking we read about today is the one in which the mocker… “mocks others because he despises them for not having succeeded as he did in the acquisition of wealth and honor. He despises the poor, not in that he imputes any imprecations to them, but in that they are despicable in his eyes.”

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Spem in Alium

” wends its way through the whole Bible, and Biblical passages and stories have frequently been turned into compositions for both liturgical and concert use.”

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