What tales could be told of a friendship that has run unabated for nearly half a century? What is the nucleus of such a fraternal bond of love between two men? For when it comes to Tony, it is nothing less than this that is at issue. He was and will always be my main […]
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Among the recurring themes in my posts is that embracing weakness and vulnerability rather than power is spirituality 101. This is not happenstance, it is nurtured by experience more than hypothesis, practice rather than theory, and a consequent abiding conviction that the spiritual ethics of humility in practice, active justice, and doing compassion & love,
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My last two posts were concerned with two brief passages from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. This post continues to draw from that same deep well. I like to think I am a ‘Grace of God guy,’ I mean, a fella like me can make very little other claim. Like the mystic prophet Paul,
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I just couldn’t move on from that trouble prone, first century, Jewish misfit mystic, Paul, without a few more words regarding his approach to power. “Power is made perfect in weakness,” he dramatically declares (2 Cor 12:9). Not bad from a fella who was destined to become arguably the second most important figure ever in the
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