
Meditating on Evil during
Holy Week
Holy Week seems like a good time to meditate on evil, since not only Christians, but most people can recognize in the Jesus story, a
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Holy Week seems like a good time to meditate on evil, since not only Christians, but most people can recognize in the Jesus story, a

All morality, all ethics, is about choices. Consider the ancient teaching from Deuteronomy: “I put before you life and death. Choose life.” Life is a

In their fine work, The Last Week, New Testament scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan inform us that the paths humans can choose to

Today is Passover. That great day in Jewish memory when the people commemorate the Liberation and Exodus, from servitude, slavery and the Pharoah’s cruelty. What

Hildegard develops further her deep and useful teachings about our spiritual warriorhood in a visionary image she painted: two walls coming together, building a “heavenly

We are discussing the very important archetype for our times, one that displaces a sick and toxic masculinity that our patriarchal culture is drowning in,

We meditated yesterday on two spiritual warriors or prophets, Julia Butterfly and Sister Dorothy Stang. Sister Dorothy studied Hildegard of Bingen in depth at our

The following two facts stare us in the face today. They ought to arouse us to caring and to action surely. Therefore, to our spiritual

The tradition of “jihad” in Islam has often been distorted to mean “holy war” against others. In fact, Muhammad himself was explicit about its true meaning. He

Buddhism has much to teach about spiritual warriorhood. The warrior trains his or her heart by learning to let go and be emptied in order
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