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Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity

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From Advent 2009: The gospel of God is not so much that God comes to save us but that God saves us by coming to us, by coming and being with us as one of us. God’s saving presence is manifested and accomplished not by the Divine waving a magic celestial Read more [...]

Saints Alive!

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I was relistening to a podcast this week in which the interviewee, Francis Weller, a psychotherapist, writer, and expert in the healing work of grief ritual, made the comment that in his work he sees two ailments that especially seem to afflict people Read more [...]

Asking Permission to “Be” Once Again

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I have been reading Matthew Fox’s new book A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey courtesy of a long-time member of The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community. Merton, one of the most important spiritual writers Read more [...]

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

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My favorite quote to illuminate what it means to be holy is the well-worn line from St. Iranaeus: “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” From the perspective of faith, the sacred drama of life involves and avails us the opportunity to Read more [...]