Friday, July 30, 2021

Into the darkness

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The ambiguities are numerous and drive us to despair—almost. Yet the God of Israel does not leave us to ourselves. Even when He throws us in...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Loss of intimacy

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The tragedy of our time is that we have moved out of the dimension of the holy, that we have abandoned the intimacy in which relationship to...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Thought for the day

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Worship is more than paying homage. To worship is to join the cosmos in praising God. The whole cosmos, every living being sings, the psalmi...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Separation of church and state: a different look

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Religion as an establishment must remain separated from the government. Yet prayer as a voice of mercy, as a cry for justice, as a plea for ...
Monday, July 26, 2021

A false separation

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The hour calls for a revision of fundamental religious concerns. The wall of separation between the sacred and the secular has become a wall...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Thought for the day

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What is handicapping prayer is not the antiquity of the Psalms but our own crudity and spiritual immaturity.—Abraham Joshua Heschel in Moral...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Open the door!

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God is beyond the reach of finite notions, diametrically opposed to our power of comprehension. In theory He seems to be neither here nor now...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Called back from oblivion

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Prayer serves many aims. It serves to save the inward life from oblivion. It serves to alleviate anguish. It serves to partake of Gods myste...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

A house of prayer

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In his cottage, even the poorest man may bid defiance to misery and malice. That cottage may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Is your soul homeless?

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Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermo...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Real prayer

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We have lost sensitivity to truth and purity of heart in the wasteland of opportunism. It is, however, a loss that rebounds to afllict us wi...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Theology as palimpsest

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In antiquity as well as in the Middle Ages, due to the scarcity of parchment, people would often write new texts on top of earlier written p...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

How's your theology?

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The test of authentic theology is the degree to which it refiects and enhances the power of prayer, the way of worship.—Abraham Joshua Hesche...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

It's a matter of priorities, really

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As they say, presented without comment, which is really a very strong comment! I cannot say that I feel complacent about our chances for pe...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Progress? Not so much

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First, although people have accepted the civil-rights movement as legitimate, they do not seem to have perceived the movements implications....
Friday, July 09, 2021

Awe and wonder

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Just as we are command to love man, we are also called upon to be sensitive to the grandeur of God’s creation. We are infatuated with our gr...
Thursday, July 08, 2021

Outrage!

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To destroy the illusion that man is his own center cannot be done easily. In order to understand, and to cultivate an openness to transcende...
Wednesday, July 07, 2021

A parable

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Remember back in the early days of blogging when blogs cross-linked to interesting stories on other blogs? I fear those days are gone—I'...

A little lower than the…

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I would say that the major religious problem today is the systematic liquidation of man's sensitivity to the challenge of God. Let me tr...
Tuesday, July 06, 2021

We see but dimly

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Human faith is never final, never an arrival, but rather an endless pilgrimage, a being on the way. We have no answers to all problems. Even ...