Archive for May, 2009
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
A Triptych of Visitations Thirty Years On
I was riding my bicycle on Lake Drive into the beautiful northern suburbs of Milwaukee on a perfect late summer day, Labor Day afternoon. My body was racked. Alcohol was responsible, er…, I was responsible for the racking, but this was nothing new. I had really been having a nine-year hangover, one day at a […]
2 Comments » - Posted in From Belief Systems To Relief Systems by Bill Glenn
Monday, May 25th, 2009
A fumbling Dalai Lama shows us the spirtual frontier
His Holiness The Dalai Lama tells a story on himself. A number of years ago he was slated to give a talk in Tokyo. He sat on the platform awaiting his turn. The host gave a beautiful and extravagant speech about the gorgeous arrangement of flowers on the table that were to be given to […]
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Simple, Declarative, and Life-threatening
Three summers ago, Scott and I travelled in Italy, making our camp in Umbria, and I spent a glorious morning alone in Assisi. The ancient hillside town is Francisco-fied to the max, but it was inoffensive, even endearing. I arrived at dawn, participated non-verbally in a Eucharist with several old women and an equally old […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Dark Night of the Soul by Bill Glenn
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Going Within
I feel as though I have been very quiet lately in the spiritual sense. Almost too quiet. I believe this is a function of having been too much in the world. It seems as though I have had to try on the “worldly” persona one more time in order to realize once and for all […]
Comments Off - Posted in All of Our Voices (Posts from Contributors) by Rev. Teri Sandler
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Swine flu — it’s time to love your inner pig
“The pig is a very dangerous animal when it comes to the flu,” said Dr. Peter Katona, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. “It has the ability to recombine genetic material from different species, something that neither birds nor humans can do. And now we’ve got a new […]