Category: Reflections
We Live in a Safe Universe in Spite of Everything by Ed Burns
Jesus knew that we were—and are—capable of betrayal and abandonment and treachery and cruelty. But he opted to stay with us anyway, to the point where he was willing to endure the mystery of evil itself.
Reflections on Two Hundred Years of Herman Melville: Part II: Questing Souls at Sea by Leonard Engel
"[W]henever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
Praying Is More Than Saying Words by Fran Salone-Pelletier
It takes a lot of living and dying before one begins to understand the depth of prayerfulness. It means allowing God to be the up-lifter of what we think and carry deep within us.
A Poem by Walker Storz
". . . I was / talking to his shadow / splayed / across the world . . ."
Two Poems by Walker Storz
"There are songs that / come from within ice, / there are long seasons / that sing to the body . . ."