So Say Yes
I have found a key. Nothing is ever lost. When the stomach flu racks your body or death disintegrates you or you’re born or born again or you fall in love or lose a leg, nothing is lost. When you …
Category: God and the Tao
My New Family
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. When early Christians …
Radical Disciples
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. According to The Oxford …
When the Prophets Railed
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. I always took …
The Whole Tao
If the Tao is the way, I don’t know that it’s the whole way. In the voice of his character Seymour, J. D. Salinger pointed out that religion hinges on detachment but poetry on passion, and if you want to practice …
Writing Naturally
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. In The Oxford …
We Want a Boys’ Band
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. Here again it …
The Person They Are
I can see why they call it the Tao. I can see why the Bible says God makes it rain on the righteous and wicked alike: everywhere, there’s this law, this boarding pass to another way of being, and if …
Gotta Sink an Anchor
This is an ongoing series of meditations on faith, in response to readings from the articles that preface The Oxford Study Bible. I will trust the reader to dig up the context if the meaning is unclear. Is this true? …
My Faith Must Be of This Land
I paused from my study to read back over these entries, trying to make sense of something that eludes me. It has to do with this subject of lineage and place and how they affect religion. I think I understand …