Henri Nouwen tells us that we don’t have to be anxious. Really we don’t.
The Invitation in Revelation
Baby Jesus, Big God
Christ's Promise and a 'More Perfect Union'
Oh Holy Night: A Lectio Divina
It's About the Light!
Burnout! Why Social Action Needs Contemplation
Crawling on the Road to Damascus
It's a Fountain of Youth
Contemplation as an Editorial Policy
What's the Price of Silence?
The Chicken Joke Is Wrong
The Healing Power of Water
Who Stole My 'Joy'?
Our New Mediation Garden as a 'Field of Dreams'
The Perplexing Parable of the Mustard Seed
I have been struggling with the parable of the mustard seed. The conventional wisdom has been that great things grow from the smallest of seeds, but Fr. Thomas Keating offers another, much more radical, understanding of the passage in his Meditations on the Parables of Jesus. I invite you to struggle along with me.