So the new preacher started yesterday in rousing fashion, his lesson centered in the ancient Jewish commandment which is the centerpiece of the Torah, and reaffirmed years later by Jesus as the most important commandment. "Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord Your God with all …
Anybody Know How to Hear God?
Say there was a character who decided he was going to hear a definitive word from God or be damned trying. He saunters along in the jazzy rain, barely noticing the rain noodling in through the holes in his jeans, too lost in an imminently practical and frustrating question: how to hear from God? He …
Do We Need Each Other?
Anthony de Mello says not really. So I'm having this conversation with someone, on whether we need each other or not, and whether our happiness depends on anyone else other that us and God. And de Mello keeps coming up. I don't have his writings in front of me for exact quotes, but my memory …
Random Snatches of April
"In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic." - G.K. Chesterton And here's a line from a poem from the same magazine I saw the Chesterton quote in, the fabulous The Sun. The poem is by Joe Wilkins, called "Manifesto". …
Words When There Aren’t Any
I slept an hour later than usual this morning, two hours later than the mornings when I get up to hit the gym at 5. As a result I'm sitting here dead-headed, without much to say. So I'm reading an article on whether or not we plagarize consciously or unconsciously, and does it matter? Quite …
JEFF BERRYMAN 