Posts Tagged ‘The Future of Christian Spirituality Series’

“In him all things hold together…and through him God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself.” Colossians 1:17, 20 Perhaps it goes without saying but it needs to be…

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is not a huge leap to move from welcoming the stranger to caring for the stranger—being…

“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” —Jesus As I journeyed with my desire and with a good spiritual director, something else was happening, too. Wrestling with my tradition…

“We do not know God by thinking, but by encountering.” –John of the Cross As my director and I transitioned into a new kind of relationship I was still thinking…

“A spiritual director is one who helps another recognize and follow the inspirations of grace in his life, in order to arrive at the end to which God is leading…

“The reason we do not see God is the faintness of our desire.” –Meister Eckhart Truth be told, it was desperation that first drew me deeper into the spiritual journey.…

New leadership is needed for new times, but it will not come from finding more wiley ways to manipulate the external world. It will come as we … find the…