Daily Teaching for Saturday, May 18th
This weekend is college graduation for many people. Congratulations to all of you!
Daily Teaching for Friday, May 17th
Our culture needs new rituals and rites of passage that speak to contemporary people and their life experience. Such events require mentors to guide people through these them. Our problem is that most people of age to be mentors never received mentoring…
Daily Teaching for Thursday, May 16th
The solution to crime isn’t imprisonment, it’s removing the causes and conditions for crime to arise. You can’t be punished out of poverty, addiction, racism, inequality, or injustice. When will we learn?
Daily Teaching for Wednesday, May 15th
Once you believe you have it all figured out, you can be pretty sure that you don’t have it all figured out. As they say in Korean Zen, “Only don’t know.”
Daily Teaching for Tuesday, May 14th
If you can’t safely tell the whole story of your faith journey to your pastor, church or denominational authority, spiritual teacher, or other faith leader, then why in the world haven’t you left?
Exercises in Irrelevance and Hypocrisy
Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley is “boycotting” the Boston College graduation ceremony because the speaker will be Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who is trying to get legislation passed to allow abortion to save a mother’s life. Ireland has some of the…
Daily Teaching for Monday, May 13th
In one sense, labels are useful constructs because they allow us to organize our world. Know what a door, a table, a pen, and other commonplace items are facilitates communication and actually is a good thing. Other labels are destructive and life…
Daily Teaching for Sunday, May 12th
Happy Mother’s Day to ALL you mothers out there…that’s right, I’m talking to you! You know who you are.
Daily Teaching for Saturday, May 11th
If you are waiting for God to descend from on high and rescue you then you are bound to be disappointed. There is no external superhero God wearing a red cape and waiting to fly in and rescue you. The truth is that God dwells within us and calls us to…
