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Dr. Martin Luther King, whose Feast Day we celebrate today, had his criticism of church and religion. He talked of a “mighty struggle” that he
Howard Thurman felt that “Christianity has betrayed Jesus.” Gandhi agreed and Albert Schweitzer offered this observation: What has been passing for Christianity during these nineteen centuries is
In this Christmas season and invitation from a New Year to renew ourselves as a species and as individuals, we have been meditating on the moxa (prophetic
Even though Meister Eckhart celebrated richly the God of light and wonder and creation, he also laid out a profoundly generous banquet of teachings on
We have spoken about the feminine side to advent, a time of waiting, of pregnancy, of gestating in the dark. The Godhead is feminine and is grounded
There is something feminine and maternal about Advent and winter. One reader of our daily meditations wrote in the Comments section a few days ago about
Merton says that silence is necessary and churches should provide plenty of it: Let there always be quiet, dark places in which people can take refuge. Places
Today, December 10, is the anniversary of Thomas Merton’s entering the monastery in 1940 and also the 54th anniversary of his untimely death. About the
In this season of winter and darkness and advent, we continue our meditation with Meister Eckhart on repose, keeping in mind the Biblical statement that forms the
Two days ago in our daily meditations, we spoke of how winter and the darkness “contain their own wisdom and lessons, one of which is silence
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