The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us ….

People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know that they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before ….

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level..

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge..

Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running awa….

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in i….

It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through..

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or ….

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced….

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I th….

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, poli….

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong..

Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery..

Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only seconda….

Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better than the other, so we ….

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object..

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relat….

The Eucharist becomes a microcosmic moment of belief and power in which we say we believe in the real presence of God in Jesus, in this bread, and in….

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now..

All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and….

We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain….