Right away I noticed him. His head wrapped in a turban, he fit in with all of us misfits, all of us travelers on this journey of life, religion, politics, and survivors of the expectations that arise from ourselves and others. Under the turban was a young man seeking for answers, running and playing the …
Recently I was at a retreat center in San Francisco. There was different art on the walls and this picture caught my attention: As you can see, this portrays all the different faces that artists have used to depict what Jesus looked like. Notice the similarities. Notice the differences. Now ask yourself: Which ones do …
It’s been awhile since I’ve written. In the wake of the Connecticut shootings a few weeks ago, I had to take a hiatus from writing, from busyness, from just “noise” in general. After some of the rush of the holidays, I feel I’m ready to put my thoughts back out there. I just had to …
There are moments of the Sacred that surround us everyday. They scream at us, or whisper at us, or dance around us. Most of the time we are unaware of the dance, of the whisper. At times we hear the scream, or see the miraculous within the mundane. Regardless of us seeing it, it still …
There’s this t-shirt out there that says “They Will Know We Are Christians by our T-shirts.” Which is kinda funny, and kinda sad. It seems lately that the first part of this phrase could go many different directions. Let’s try some: They will know we are Christians by our…Facebook Updates They will know we are …
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