Goodpeople, Pax Christi USA, the National Catholic Peace Movement, has been generous enough to reprint on their website an article I wrote in response to the Iraq War. It has been slightly updated. It is titled: "The Missing Peace in the Read more [...]
A LIFE-LINE
I would like to say as simply as I know how, to other Christians, that I'm convinced that in our lifetime we have no contribution to make to one another or to the world at large except a modest and consistent NO to death. Our churches can Read more [...]
ANOTHER SHOOTING AND KILLING IN A SYNAGOGUE IN THE USA, this one in Poway, CA. One is left to wonder in the history of humanity, how many days has the sun set and the moon risen when a human didn't intentionally kill another human. And I wonder of Read more [...]
ADVENT
It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss --
This is true: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
Today's Life-Line is:
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total — but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial . . . ‘Of Read more [...]
Today’s Life-Line is:
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your Read more [...]
Today's Life-Line is:
Our Father, Mother, who are in the world
and surpass the world,
blessed by your presence, in us, in animals
and flowers, in still air and wind.
May justice and peace dwell among us
as you come to us.
Your will be our will.
You Read more [...]
Continued from (March 3: A Word to the Wise – Christening)
A college friend of mine had a particular repetitive fondness for the jocular quip, “You and I have a strange and wonderful relationship (dramatic pause): You’re kind of strange and I’m Read more [...]
◊ Listening to Boredom (continued)
"When death comes to find you, may it find you ALIVE." -~ African Proverb
The third fear associated with unexcavated boredom is the fear of one’s mortality. Mortality understood not as some abstract dimension of Read more [...]