July 7, 2018 The Art of Memory “My eyes, which had seen all, came back, Back to the white chrysanthemums.” – Issho, trans. Asataro Miyamori – Ethel’s small front yard, enclosed…
September 30, 2017 What Will You Run Toward? “What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make?” –…
September 9, 2017 Why Faith Needs Balance On my refrigerator, I’ve posted three important reminders to myself (besides my grocery list): • a bumper sticker that says, “No Sniveling” • a…
December 24, 2016 Enriching Tradition “Stay within your own religious tradition and be enriched by others.” – Pico Iyer – I love the word enriched. I think of stirring…
December 17, 2016 Are You Religious or Spiritual – or Both? Two streams run through the landscape of the soul: the spiritual and the religious. Sometimes these streams converge, and sometimes they separate. It’s common…
December 10, 2016 Some of Us Light Candles I grew up in a Texas town that had scores of churches and three Christian colleges: a Baptist, a Methodist, and a Church of…