May we live so a should might see God as they wander the mountains; If the listen with awe, for God lies in the cries of the wind; In the manner of sunlight that glints on waves dancing on water. Looking out for the holy is only a habit of mind. –from Servetus: the Radical […]
Feeling Sorry for Donald Trump
I’ve been reading and binge-watching, of all things, documentaries on the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. My motivation lies in current events. If we’re going to compare the Trump Administration to the Nazi Party and Trump to Hitler, we should study the real thing. We are awash in both similarities and differences. As one difference, the […]
On Atheism and Humility
Some of my most intense religious formation came during my chaplain residency at a large teaching hospital north of Chicago. One day a week I would bring my guitar onto my assigned unit. I would do what I called “corridor concerts:” singing in the hallway rather like a wandering minstrel. I kept the volume low […]
Little Celebrations #24: Liturgical Quotables
Some days we burst with life like buds swelling to meet the sun. Other days we feel cracked, empty, and brittle as old skeleton leaves blown along the ground. We gather in religious community: new and old, empty and full, to create in our togetherness a richness, a subtlety, a completeness that we do not […]
Learning Resilience (and Resistance) from a Song
As I suspect a lot of songwriters can tell you, one’s best songwriting springs from the subconscious. This does happen to me every once in awhile. (Years ago I wrote a funny song titled “Body Parts,” about an auto junkyard worker’s love for his girlfriend. Only later, when pointed out by others, did I realize […]
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