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St. Patrick’s Day is the inspiration for green beer, shamrocks, and lots of leprechaun hunts. The real St. Patrick was something of a less merry and less light-hearted soul. At the age of 16, he was kidnapped by pirates from his home in Cornwall or Devon, and taken to Ireland as a slave. Six years … Continue reading “St. Patrick”

Doubt and uncertainty are the precursors to deeper understanding and deeper faith. If we cannot suspend our assumptions, we cannot learn. Learning requires sacrificing our certainty for surprising possibilities, for insights we could not have previously entertained. In all the post-resurrection stories, Jesus’ followers do not recognize him. His essential nature has changed, but so … Continue reading “God Who Makes All Things New*”

This Sunday is Earth Day. It is a holy Day for us as we remember that the things we make, like plastic, may seem eternal, but in fact have only a borrowed life pulled from their first forms. It is those first forms that we celebrate as holy. I think that when we use those … Continue reading “Earth Day”

“The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.” Bertrand Russell, a determined … Continue reading “Call to Liberation”

We may be made for love and life may begin for us in that way, but life will offer us different lessons too and we will have to relearn how to be lovers at every stage of our lives. Faith at its best is an ingredient in this lesson. Once we understand that God has … Continue reading “This is God”