Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
A Thin Gruel
I have been making of God a thin gruel. For a long time now. This thin-gruel God is, in the end, a witness, a bystander, a wisp. This God is ultimately disinterested, stoic, arms crossed in every way. This God is distant like a Hubbled galaxy, grand in design, beautiful in construction, […]
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Beyond Belief
Beyond Belief is a book group at Bob’s church. We are reading, oddly enough, A Voluptuous God and are lucky enough to have the author sitting in. Nothing like a direct line to the source.
The ideas that reside in the book are ideas that we in the book group are all familiar with, they are […]
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
When We Drop The Dogma
Whether you are a theist, panentheist or atheist—everybody has at least one god. Your god is that to which you give your ultimate allegiance. The truth to which you give your heart and devote your life—that is your god.
I have an atheist friend, well actually I have a lot of atheist friends—but this one is […]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Religion and Politics at the Goodman Theatre
I agree that it was a good discussion of religion and politics at the Goodman Theatre Monday evening (10-15-07)–already good, as some said, just because it happened.
Early on Bob said something that I think would have changed much of what followed if everyone had believed it truly was assumed by all participants in a religon-and-politics […]
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Dropping into the Heart
It has been a strange and beautiful honor to find myself in the position of contemporary translator of the great sixteenth century Spanish mystic, Teresa of Avila. Converting her timeless wisdom teachings into accessible English has not been simply a literary task. Every hour I spend with Teresa’s writings feels like an hour at the […]
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
We Melted That
Now I am grown-up and have not time for anything but the essentials. Thomas Merton
The rains are finally here…a good thing for which we wait through the long dry summer of Northern California. The aroma the moist earth emits fills the nostrils and lungs with gratitude, and the brisk air is a needed respite from […]
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
Myth of Separation: Politics and Religion
Noting that religious themes are all-the-go in the current Chicago theatre scene, Chicago Tribune theatre critic, Chris Jones comments on four major stage productions being offered in metro Chicago: “Far more than in decades past, to intersect with matters of the moment is to take on the question of God–who he is, what he means, which […]
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
For Michael, And For Us
When I was a boy, a little boy, I had a day glo statue of Jesus, like the Christ the Redeemer who presides over the people of Rio from the majestic top of Sugar Loaf: Jesus with a pleated robe, its folds of perfection draping his arms outstretched, welcoming me and blessing me. I had […]