Occupation: Author Birth: May 3, 1942
Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center.
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem..
We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharisti….
Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit..
Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the ….
Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us i….
Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves ….
But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of God's love and to confess our….
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father..
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly….
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord..
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," wher….
Graciousness, courtesy, compassion-this is hesed. Hesed is a quality that extends even to the animals and the land. The sabbath rest principle of Heb….
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the ….
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people..
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled with….
We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People m….
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small..
Simplicity is freedom..
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible..
In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer..