July 2016

On a lighter note, I wanted to share three books I’ve read recently that I’ve really loved. If you’re looking for a good read over these last few weeks of summer, here are some worth considering: Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible by Debbie Blue….

Happy Moltmann Monday! Today’s selection is from The Spirit of Life in a chapter entitled “Theology of Mystical Experience” which is worth reading in its entirety. Here’s a small taste: Meditation is in fact an ancient method of arriving at knowledge which has been pushed aside by our modern activism….

I’ve been pondering the words of this poem by Hafiz a lot lately. I thought it was the perfect day to share it.   Let your Intelligence begin to rule Whenever you sit with others Using this sane idea: Leave all your cocked guns in a field Far from us,…

Happy Moltmann Monday! Today’s selection comes from Jesus Christ for Today’s World in his chapter on The Great Invitation: This is the true God: the one who in Christ takes the way of suffering to the point of death on the cross, so as to reconcile this faithless and torn…

This summer I’ve been on a Jane Austen kick. I’ve always loved her books, and my appreciation for her as a writer has only increased. (Such wit! What great characters!) As I was re-reading Emma, I got to that part where Emma and a good number of her neighbors are…