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- 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...

I feel certain when the vested academics and theologians get together over tea in a regional convention, they use four and five syllable wor...

I find great energy in the Acts of the Apostles. This account written to “Theophilus” (a lover of God) is the root of my reassuring my faith...

The equation does not balance. Or it does not always balance for me. The consensus on the writing of the four gospels goes something like th...

I make this observation. I remember in my youth of some thirty to forty odd years ago when you could not get any Jewish people to even menti...

From a journal – May 2003 ...Rushing to my express bus on Fifth Avenue I glanced up the steps into an unused entrance to Saint Thomas Ep...

With a global war of perceptions of what the human race is about, what it believes and how it goes forward into the future are great macros ...

Some strange guy once waved to me in a nearly empty parking lot at the Mall in Arizona. Hey I do go to the mall sometimes. I did not know...

One learns with a newborn baby that it does not come with an instruction book. Some things you learn on your own. Some things are common sen...

Old time religion was about a cohesive social unit. It was not particularly political. The rural past of America and going back to the midd...

Along the road of life one gets a taste for the things that are of interest to oneself. My senses pick up when I see a good anthropology or...