defining choices
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Reframing Lent
It’s time to reframe the season of Lent. The way we usually define it is not wrong, if you hold the traditional Latin view of God as an “original sin” kind of god who holds loving grace in one hand while holding punishment and rejection in the other – the hope of heaven and the Continue reading
abundant life, accepted by God, Ash Wednesday, curiosity, darkness and light, day of the Lord, defining choices, heaven and hell, Isaac the Syrian, Joel, Lent, living fully, Margot Bachol Bisnow, original blessing, original sin, questions, redemption, remembering who you are, repentance, resurrection, spiritual maturity, the light within, Thomas Merton -
The wideness of mercy
The season after Epiphany has been described as the season when “we reflect on the nature of the Messiah who has come, and we face the risky problem of how we are to act on the basis of our reflection” (Robert McAfee Brown in Social Themes of the Christian Year: A Commentary on the Lectionary, Continue reading
The Sauntering Pilgrim 