‘Tis the season for angels, angels, angels! We sing songs about angels, read stories about angels, we make angels in the snow, and of course, we put angel images everywhere. On cookies, in frames, frozen in sculpture, molded in chocolate, and then we even impale them on decorated trees.
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In last Sunday’s sermon I “outed” myself as a mystic. Clearly not a FAMOUS mystic, but I do have mystical tendencies, value the teachings of Christian mystics (in particular) and I have embraced a number of spiritual practices that are often labeled “good for mystics”. My journey with mysticism began when I was introduced to the great medieval Christian mystic Hildegard…
Justice is what love looks like in public – Dr. Cornel West There is an old story told about a village on a river that I first heard from a nun friend, but it seems to be so old (and pervasive) that I could not find an origin. If anyone can name the source, I’ve got a lollypop with your name on…
Happy All Saints Day! I love the “dancing saints” at St. Gregory of Nissa Church in San Francisco. Completed in 2009, this wonderful 3,000 square foot painting depicts a staggering variety of traditional and surprising saints depicted in a style that recalls ancient iconography and yet all of them are dancing. The artist, Mark Dukes, collaborated with the congregation to select and…
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. – Willa Cather, (1873 -1947) U.S. novelist,…
One of the most telling differences among individual American churches lies in their approach to the world beyond their doors. In my mind there are two major camps: the “just-us” churches and the “justice” churches. For some congregations, the “just-us” sort, interactions with the wider community are strictly limited to their evangelism efforts. In such churches, members are encouraged to invite their…