There are so many biographies out there. Should I start the new one of Steve Jobs that everyone seems to be reading? What about getting the recent one of Catherine the Great, instead ? I’ve always wanted to learn more about her. Or what about reading the new Metaxas biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (a book [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer A few years ago I read about Bonhoeffer’s ideas around “cheap grace.” Church life can become safe and comfortable. So many of us attend church every Sunday, enjoy the service and coffee hour together, but these pleasures are a “cheap grace” when there is little else done together other than worry about finances periodically. [...]
“There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is His Prophet”—prayed daily by Muslims In December 2010 I was in Egypt. I was met at the Cairo airport by a driver who was to take me to Sekem – a thriving, sustainable community created out of the desert in 1977. The man’s [...]
I have always been interested in St. Paul and I have wanted to understand what he experienced in Damascus. Beforehand, Paul had lived the life of a Jewish Pharisee believing that the common life had to be regulated as laid down in the books of the Old Testament. Male babies were circumcised. There were laws [...]
“You shall not make for yourself an idol…….for I the LORD your God am a jealous God” (Deut 5:8) Yikes! When I read this I can relate to the distaste that many people feel about the God of the Old Testament . Can there actually be a God who is “jealous?” My marriage broke [...]
“Everyone needs a place where it is just you. It can be creative, it can be a computer – it can be anything. It is your sacred place and you own it.” Toni Morrison When I read this I immediately could identify my own sacred place which is my desk (also serves as my eating place [...]
At the Vancouver School of Theology I have just completed a course on Process Theology. I love that word “process” because it reminds me that that is how I like to live my own life. One event leads me to another; my circle of living expands to ever greater complexity and richness and enjoyment like [...]
