Modern scribes write, “In Jesus Christ Everyone is free” And the doors open wide to all straight men & women But they are not open to me And who is teaching kids to be soldiers To be marked by a plain white cross And we kill just a little to...

Sin is centrifugal. When at work in a human life, it tends to push everything out toward the periphery. Bits and pieces go flying off until only the core is left. Eventually bits and pieces of the core itself go flying off until in the end, nothing at all is...

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things. –Mechtild of Magdeburg God is the ground of all being but is not a being.  God is the force that causes all things to exist but...

In the absence of a visible God, the temptation is always near to make a god of whatever is visible and related in some proximate way to the real thing. At its best we call this symbolism…. The inherent risk in symbolism is that the symbol becomes a substitute for...

And the God formed a human being from the dust of the ground, and breathed into its nostrils the breath of life; and the human being became a living soul. –Genesis 2:7 The man’s body is sacred and the woman’s body is sacred,     No matter who it is, it...

A young poet asked the playwright Samuel Beckett, “How are you?” “Words fail me,” he answered.

Dance without sleeping Dance without fear Dance without senses, no message I hear Dance without sleeping Dance till I’m numb Dance till I think I can overcome –Melissa Etheridge tiredness grounds me into quiet stupor of the spirit. i yearned to be inspired, to be lifted up, set free beyond...

I write this on a day given to remembering the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem.  This year the day seems empty and abstract. The events of the week are too overpowering.  The knowledge that Christ’s entry led directly to his Crucifixion looms too grimly ahead.  This seems the strangest...

…[B]elief is not the supernatural sleight of hand designed to save us from the exigencies of life. “There are those who say in winter,” the Sufi story teaches, “‘I shall not wear warm clothes. I will trust in God to keep me warm.’ But they forget,” the story says, “that...

Purification will come and grandma will cradle us in her arms     and wipe away our tears and grandpa will walk among us.     It will be this generation you people     will make it reality and the hoop will come together again. –Mitakuye Oyasin Peace comes within the souls...