Have you ever been in a situation where you hear someone say something, and it sounds new but also familiar.  Almost like something you feel you knew before but had forgotten.  It’s like waking up.  Maybe more specifically, it’s like something is waking up inside of you that has been slumbering, so to speak. …

When we hear news about our world, many times it is taken as simply information or data.  This information is about something that has happened or someone who has done something.  There is an implicit alterity or otherness about the information. …

The reality of suffering is undeniable.  It comes in many shapes and forms.  It is physical, mental, spiritual, emotional.  It can come from what we may consider to be natural causes, or it can be the result of people’s actions and behaviors. …

I wonder what it was like to sit there with Jesus and listen to him speak at great length about his relationship with his Father, and how that same relationship was granted the disciples. The intimacy and power of the words coming from him must have been overwhelming and actually quite confusing. …

“For us, life come and goes and does not stop; we exist within this dynamism, and live in its passing.”  – Raimon Panikkar

There is a sense of passing things on, i.e., transmission going on in Jesus’ long discourse with his disciples in John the evangelist’s gospel. …