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Category: Speaking to the Soul

Speaking to the Soul: No King Can Be Saved

July 4, 2016 No Comments

Whether or not you are observing a national holiday, today’s Psalm invites us all to celebrate freedom from a mortal king.

Speaking to the Soul: Go in Peace

July 3, 2016 1 Comment

We are all doing the best we can, and that’s enough.

Speaking to the Soul: Where is the Love?

July 2, 2016 No Comments

What message am I giving when I run somebody down verbally or mentally, or look with disfavor on certain people who support things that I find unimportant or detrimental to the common good.

Speaking to the Soul: Not What I’m Paying You For

July 1, 2016 No Comments

Balaam refuses to deliver the prophecy that his client wants to buy from him. His example can strengthen our own resistance to letting the powerful purchase our fear, hatred, and curses of our enemies.

Speaking to the Soul: Refusing the Robe

June 30, 2016 3 Comments

God is the silence at the center of activity, the knowingness that invites and redeems. Find and listen, therefore, to the guest within who refuses to put on the robe of expectations.

Speaking to the Soul: Is He Talking About Us?

June 29, 2016 No Comments

Can we see ourselves in the chief priests and Pharisees?

Speaking to the Soul: Creative Love

June 28, 2016 No Comments

Jesus reminds us that being apart from creation does not absolve him (and by extension us) from a responsibility to it. He demonstrates that responsibility by following through with taking up the cross, dying, and rising again

Speaking to the Soul: Presenting Our Bodies

June 27, 2016 No Comments

How do we include our bodies in our lives of prayer?

Speaking to the Soul: It’s hard to say goodbye

June 26, 2016 3 Comments

Saying goodbye to the old ways can be hard. But, like Elijah, real leaders raise up their successors, offering holy friendship, support, and encouragement to try something new!

Speaking to the Soul: Songs of the People

June 25, 2016 6 Comments

Music is part of our lives, and part of our faith tradition. Johnson understood this as he spoke of the songs of his people, the music of unheralded bards whose names are known to God alone but whose music still echoes in our hearts and minds.