Love and Compassion

Christian Pacifists

God of Peace

It is entirely appropriate that the Christians who adopt an active pacifist life, model their commitment on the life of the God with skin on man from Galilee, Jesus. He is for Christians the quintessential pacifist par excellence.  Difficulty arises, however, when one enters the vast and varied terrain of Hebrew scripture. It is there […]

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The Everywhere God

God is Love: Invisibly Present Amongst Us 

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

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