Where Heart and Mind Meet
Our Faith is Over 2000 Years Old. Our Thinking is Not.
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Chrysalis, Crater and Crypt, part II
Crater In 1992, after the breakup of Yugoslavia, long-standing religious and ethnic tensions erupted into violent, armed conflict. For 44 months, from April 1992 until December 1995, war ravaged the region. Over 100,000 people were killed and 2 million were displaced; it was the most devastating loss of life in Europe since World War II. …
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Chrysalis, Crater and Crypt, part I
Chrysalis Every truth has a consequence; every light casts a shadow. Atlanta really didn’t have “winter” this year; I’m not sure it ever even really reached freezing at my house. Some celebrated its absence, but I didn’t. I missed it; I need the four seasons. The cadence is a deep spiritual rhythm for me: birth, …
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Reflecting on Psalm 23
O my Beloved, you are my shepherd, I shall not want; you bring me to green pastures for rest and lead me beside still waters renewing my spirit, you restore my soul. You lead me in the path of goodness to follow Love’s way. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow and …
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Living into Easter
The Gospel for this Sunday (22 April 2012), Luke 24:36-48, is a continuation of the Easter story; however, the disciples were “startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost” and doubts arose in their hearts. In his conversation with them, Jesus “opens their minds.” The “alleluias” have returned to worship, but during …
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“Good” Friday Revisited
Tonight we enter the “shadows” of Holy Week through a service of Tenebrae. (“Tenebrae” comes from the Latin for “shadows” or “darkness.”) During a series of readings, hymns and choral anthems, twelve candles will gradually be extinguished and the Christ candle removed to a sepulcher. It is our most solemn service of the year; after …