Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps’ Most Important Teachers

A man in his mid-twenties said to Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps, “You have taught us so much these past few years. We are grateful for all that you have opened up for us. The provocative questions you have raised we will carry with us for the Read more [...]

The Christ-Life as a For-Prophet Endeavor

In his 1978 landmark book The Prophetic Imagination, renowned biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, whose specialty is the Hebrew scriptures, writes as succinctly and poignantly about who Jesus was and what he was up to as any Jesus scholar out there. Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (1)

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 1 MYSELF: Well , first, thank you for sitting down with me.DAN: Of course, my pleasure. Read more [...]

Celebrating the Beatituding Friends of God

TODAY is the Feast of All Saints. The gospel reading on this Feast Day is fixed. Every year it is the same passage: Matthew 5: 1-12a -- The Beatitudes.

In 2008-2009, The Human & the Holy (H&H) community spent the better part of a year studying Read more [...]

Musica Memento 3

And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly, to love kindly,
and to walk humbly with your God. 
~ Micah 6:8
The vision, essence, and life pattern that characterize what it means to be a Christian are perhaps most succinctly and clearly Read more [...]