Archive for September, 2007
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
What Does Voluptuous Mean To You?
On September 30th my book, A Voluptuous God will be launched. I have enjoyed the many comments about this book title. For many, voluptuous is a sexy word. For others it is a reference to gourmet delights. For others still, the word conjures up the beauty of nature or art.
Voluptuous is one of those words that gives […]
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Pat’s Divine Lost and Found
My friend Pat preached her final sermon at church yesterday. She retires at the end of the month. She barely mentioned that in her remarks, though. Instead, using the Lectionary reading of the Good Shepherd and extrapolated to a “lost and found” God who is actually only interested in the lost, (she said that’s you […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Take this blog and…
share it. I hope this blog will create an opportunity for a larger conversation about what it means to be a spiritual being on a human journey. I am grateful to Mirabai Starr and Bill Glenn for inviting their networks to join what we hope will become a larger conversation about spirituality, contemplation and culture. Scroll down and check out their wonderful […]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Terry, Larry, and Me
I have waited almost thirty years for the news of Mother Teresa of Calcutta’s desert to eke out. And I’m surprised it ever actually happened, but then, she planned it just so, strategically sending those missives to her spiritual director and select friends, and then asking them to destroy them! I waited thirty years because […]
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
The Comfort of the Night
In the past couple of weeks, nearly a dozen very different people have spoken to or emailed me about new revelations regarding Mother Teresa’s Dark Night of the Soul. This is probably because I recently wrote a new English translation of the famous treatise of that name by the sixteenth century Spanish mystic, John […]