Forty-four years ago, Harvey Cox wrote, "As the true heirs of our Puritan forebears, we are taught to turn our backs on the world of ...

NOTE: Here are my worship notes for Sunday, June 24, 2012.  Our band, Between the Banks, will lead this week's worship music, too.  Th...

Finishing the last chapter for tonight's book study, Healing the Heart of Democracy , Parker Palmer talks about the work of... Marshall ...

So in 8 days we leave for jolie Montreal - both of us vowed last night not to carp (much) during the next busy week because we are sooooo...

Rumi says that "the hurt you embrace turns to joy."  I suspect that this is true, but it is joy hard won, yes?  Nobody likes to ow...

Fr. Thomas Keating, mentor of the Centering Prayer movement, once wrote that the goal of  feeling centered in a deep inner rest with God is...