Into the Mystic: For the Facing of this Hour
I was on the road last week at speaking at a large gathering when I opened the email that took my...
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Into the Mystic: Let’s Talk about God
Let’s talk about God. Early in my career as a minister, I walked into a Sunday School class and...
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Into the Mystic: Demerger
I am headed to Dresden, Germany this fall. I am invited to speak at the Synod gathering of the...
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Into the Mystic: Music Hath Charms
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. So wrote the British poet and playwright William...
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Into the Mystic: Tune My Heart
There is a hymn I have always loved singing. The title of it is “Come Thou Fount of Every...
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Into the Mystic: How My Mother Reminds Me of God
We’ve been stuck for some time in a world where our images of God reinforce a bias towards...
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Into the Mystic: The Spiritual Practice of Earth Care
I spent last week at a gathering of over 500 leaders from across the country, all of us there to...
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Into the Mystic: The Sacred in You
In the Tantric tradition, from which much of yoga derives, there is the practice of greeting the...
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Into the Mystic: A Collage of Easter Memories
Easter has always lived in my memory as the single greatest day on the liturgical calendar. From my...
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Into the Mystic: The Agony And The Ecstasy
The First novel I ever read was Irving Stone’s The Agony and the Ecstasy. It was a fictional...
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God is Love
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The Hard Yes
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Read MoreFor the Healing of the Nations
Every week, I wait for a moment of insight or inspiration before sitting down to compose this brief...
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
In doing my research into white privilege and white America’s ongoing investment in whiteness, I...
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Christmas Day
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Homage to Maine
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