January 24th, 2010 A Statement of Affirmation for People of Faith
This affirming statement of God’s diversity was itself crafted by people of diverse traditions.
January 24th, 2010 January 4th, 2010 Burning Candles
A candle cannot burn without fire. What is it that sets you alight with passion? What makes you want to reach out to others? To make a difference in the world?
December 29th, 2009 Happy Metanoia
May metanoia - transformation – fill our New Year with new hope, new life, and new understanding
November 23rd, 2009 Phasers on Full
What do you mean, having radiation won’t give me x-ray vision??? Bummer. 2PKMRJZ8XP4Z
May 19th, 2009 Water Into Wine
Where did we ever get the idea that religion is supposed to dour and grim? Celebrate!
May 18th, 2009 So Much of a Little Bit
“There’s a little bit of good in the worst of us, and a little bit of bad in the best of us.” You may have heard this before. It’s a variation on a saying by Robert Louis Stevenson. We need to remember that we don’t need to be perfect in order to do good. And that no matter how hard we try there are going to be times that little bit of bad means that we fail to live up to our own expectations.
April 29th, 2009 Uncertainty
Human beings seems to abhore uncertainty and we’ll do a lot to avoid it.
April 26th, 2009 About Life and Faith
About Reflections on Life and Faith
I’m not a great believer in “labels.” Is Life and Faith liberal, or progressive, or spiritual, or inclusive, or …. ? In some sense, it’s all of those things. My faith background is “mainline” Christian. Life and Faith, therefore, is Christian as well.
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April 21st, 2009 Reached Out and Touched Me
I came up with the graphic that adorns the masthead of Life and Faith several years ago when I was writing a piece about how God influences our lives. At the time, I was working on a rebuttal to the evangelical/conservative/Hollywood image of God as a guy in white robes wielding thundbolts on unworthy human [...]
