Religion News Service How to make our politics better: Pray first, says a Jesuit guide from Religion News Service The kind of prayer recommended by a new pamphlet on civic engagement is the kind that helps us listen, detached from our own preconceptions and prejudices.…
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude It cannot be overstated that gratitude is an emotion, a complex set of feelings involving appreciation, humility, wonder, and interdependence. Gratitude is, however, more than just an emotion. It is…
Frederick Buechner Your Own Journey These two paragraphs conclude the introduction to Frederick Buechner’s first memoir: “The Sacred Journey” What I propose to do now is to try listening to my life as a whole,…
Sophfronia Scott What’s Too Much for a Dream? by Sophfronia Scott https://sophfronia.com/whats-too-much-for-a-dream/
Joan Chittister Retreat, reflection, Sabbath, and soul-space by Joan Chittister https://mailchi.mp/benetvision/do-no-harm-to-the-earth-747225?e=9ffff7d742
Patricia Raybon Making His Music by Patricia Raybon; in Our Daily Bread Ministries https://odb.org/2020/09/10/making-his-music
Diana Butler Bass It’s Easy to Have Gratitude When… | A Conversation Between Diana Butler Bass and Anne Lamott
Joan Chittister The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gradually by Joan Chittister https://www.joanchittister.org/word-from-joan/very-sweet-part-growing-older
Richard Rohr Order, Disorder, Reorder by Richard Rohr https://cac.org/order-disorder-reorder-part-one-weekly-summary-2020-08-15/
Patricia Raybon On Hearing Christ, Not Chaos and Conspiracies by Patricia Raybon https://www.incourage.me/2020/08/on-hearing-christ-not-chaos-and-conspiracies.html
Madeleine L'Engle Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
Madeleine L'Engle Taking Being Time I sit on my favourite rock, looking over the brook, to take time away from busyness, time to be. I’ve long since stopped feeling guilty about taking being time; it’s…
Frederick Buechner Life is With The temptation is always to reduce life to size. A bowl of cherries. A rat race. Amino acids. Even to call it a mystery smacks of reductionism. It is the…
Diana Butler Bass Jesus gives water, and he is water. SCRIPTURE: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a drink,” you would have asked him, and he would have…
Frederick Buechner Listen for Him The question is not whether the things that happen to you are chance things or God's things because, of course, they are both at once. There is no chance thing…
Barbara Brown Taylor Love The Stranger However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture’s wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self. You…
Diana Butler Bass How do you experience gratitude when feelings are elusive? How do you experience gratitude when feelings are elusive? Emotions are random things. Love, sadness, joy, fear. Very few are predictable, and most move like winds through our lives. They…
Frederick Buechner Alphabet of Grace Life itself can be thought of as an alphabet by which God graciously makes known his presence and purpose and power among us. Like the Hebrew alphabet, the alphabet of…
Barbara Brown Taylor Sit Me Down I can respect almost anyone who admits to being human while reading a divine text. After that, we can talk—about why we highlight some teachings and ignore others, about how…
Religion News Service Present tense: Worshipping and performing in the digital age from Religion News Service How we inhabit, explore and become vulnerable in spaces traditionally understood as ‘disembodied’ or ‘low stakes’ is among the most important artistic questions of our digital…
