How can love be legitimated?  Is there a law for love?  In the Christian tradition, there seem to be laws of love that go deep and involve transformation.  The beatitudes could be seen as these laws of love, but I wonder if the use of the term law itself is appropriate when speaking about love. …

Sometimes as I sit in the backyard of my home in silence, I hear the birds singing. I wonder what the songs are that they sing. What is their meaning? There is great beauty in the hearing – the songs sounds joyful and beckoning to me, and at times they also sound as yearning and even sad.…

How do we receive what we are given?  More specifically, do we view our lives as something given to us, something that we have received?  Do we experience the things in our lives (nature, relationships, the earth, the universe, prosperity, loneliness, talents, challenges, etc.)…

When we think of a prophet, we may think of someone who can foresee and foretell the future. We also may consider them to be heralds of peace and prosperity or doom and gloom. Prophets are sometimes viewed as spectacular figures, known for eye-popping signs that provide extraordinary passageways into ordinary life and into the future.…

The Gospel story of Jesus’ encounter with the woman of Samaria in John’s gospel has always been one of my favorites (Jn 4:5-42). Each time I hear it, another wondrous slice of wisdom seems to emerge. As the story goes, Jesus and his disciples are traveling through Samaria, and just around lunch time, they come to a well, which is just outside of the town named Sychar.…