April 2020

The Everywhere God

God is Love: Invisibly Present Amongst Us 

Love and Compassion / / / 4 Comments / , ,

One of the oft repeated idioms of one of my former spiritual teachers was, “God is invisibly present amongst us.” This turns out to be a profoundly scriptural formula for the ‘Unseen God,’ found in both Hebrew and Christian Scripture. I have written elsewhere in this blog about the thorough Jewishness of all aspects of […]

God is Love: Invisibly Present Amongst Us  Read More »

The Liberation Thing

Solidarity with the Powerless 

Spirituality of the Heart / / / 2 Comments / , ,

I have come to believe that there are few things more expressive of a seriously lived spiritual life than ‘solidarity.’ To walk the long lonesome mile with the multitude of shoeless ones, in this beautiful but broken world, is where the real fruit of the mystic endeavor fully ripens. Feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson captures the

Solidarity with the Powerless  Read More »