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“ W hen the eyes of the heart open, we can see the inner realities, hidden behind the outer forms of this world. When the ears of the heart...

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- I have not necessarily felt good in the things I wrote about the R.C. church in the preceding articles. I do not, should not judge anybo...

- One of the first lines of the standard boiler plate news releases in these R.C. dioceses that are closing churches is that there is a “sh...

“... Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one w...

- I envy Rosie O’Donnell. She has the money and the panache to say anything that strikes her fancy. She is not discombobulated or out of jo...

- I did not know when I started this blog how much I did not know about Christianity. It has been a learning experience. I learn new things...

The seventh anniversary of the tragedy of 911 is upon us shortly in another month. No great resolutions or finished monuments or buildings...

- Jesus never laughed. What a pity! Does that mean that God does not laugh either? (In the genes so to speak.) Christianity does not ...

A great dark bird (B-1) circles above. It is hard to ignore as I approach and park, then go do a late day routine. Lines in the des...

When I chose the title for this short story that I wrote for my wife, I was unaware of a similar title of a poem by Wm. Blake. Can't be ...

- We each build our own reality amid a stark universal background. What came before came before. Only the present, the now, seems to mat...

- A flutter of eyelids, ah, a quick path to sleep. How long until, if at all, to dreams and cosmic flows? (Does one have the soul of a...

It is Sunday and maybe anyone who reads this is not in a church today. There is something not working in the formula for perhaps some of us ...

This is something competely from my secular side. This is a work in progress. Tastes change. Memories change. Recipes are always being rev...

In the theme of some gnostic style thinking – (which came first (?) the chicken or the egg(?)), and that Jung thing, a central or a common...

Forty five years later I still remember some of my altar boy Latin: Suscipiat Dominus sacrificium de manibus tuis ad laudem et gloriam nom...

I recently called an old friend that I have known for decades. The conversation got around to her granddaughter who was going to grade schoo...

An exciting thing is happening today in Boston. Three women of the R.C. church are going to be ordained priests in a growing underground mov...

The Pope is in Australia talking to young people about Moral Relativism and I am encouraged if he is asking these impressionable minds to st...

What price do you put on a human being? To be fair, I do not know how this question is approached in other religions? No doubt the value and...