Feb 28, 2021

In the 1970’s Werner Erhard (1935-) gave controversial seminars around the Bay Area as part of the Human Potential Movement. He pointed out how difficult it is to really change your life. He offered strategies that might help. Erhard believed that any form of personal transformation begins with language, with the...

Feb 21, 2021

The Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) wrote the following words in the middle of the twentieth century. “The rain I am in is not like the rain of cities. It fills the woods with an immense and confused sound. It covers the flat roof of the cabin and its porch with insistent and controlled rhythms. And I listen,...

Feb 18, 2021

How can you be healed spiritually this Lent? In 2003 it would have been hard to predict what was about to happen in professional British bicycle racing. Since 1908 British riders had won only one gold medal in the Olympic Games. In 110 years they had never won a single Tour de France. Their performance was so mediocre...

Feb 17, 2021

Feb 14, 2021

In the cosmic forecast, the cloud, or overshadowing, signals the coming of the Holy Spirit, God's eternal word taking flesh and voice, and God's people, powered by grace, ushering in a new, just world order. To listen and hear the word today, we turn the testimonies of people who have defied the cross, betrayal...