I originally wrote this as an introductory passage for “ What the New Testament means to me .”   I wound up leaving it out as I didn’t...

The shelter boots us out at 5:45 a.m. daily.  You must take all your belongings with you and cannot come back until 2:30. Until February...

Luke 14: 15One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, “Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!” 16Then...

Some weeks ago, I stood in line awaiting check-in at the shelter. This place charges $3 a night. I was holding my money in my hand, and...

All my life, I’ve been fascinated with things that glow in the dark.  Where does the light come from?  This is now fundamental to my...

In many cases, you can strip away the fictions surrounding a legendary figure, and discover the historical original. For example, there...

Pray for yourself first. When you pray for someone, you become a channel through which the Holy Spirit (or “Life Force”) flows to address...

A vector in a three-dimensional space. I envision the emotional or spiritual world as a ten-dimensional space, in which a vector (arrow)...

From “Learning to pray:”   “[T]he most common mistake I observe in other folks’ prayers [is] an assumption that God is distant and apart...

“ How I became homeless ” is a long post that may be difficult to read at one sitting. The links here below can help. Clicking on any...

One is unlikely to understand this without first reading “From my diary: Learning to pray.” Bookmarks: 1. Don’t come uninvited. 2. You...

Adam Grant, The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman, An Antidote to the Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence Dilemma:  a...

How Emotionally Intelligent Are You? Here’s How To Tell If you’re in a boat out on the water, and a storm comes up, and the boat’s...

At Christmas, Christians celebrate the event in which they say God became a human being. Without this event, according to traditional...

(Below appears a tract I passed out with the Hallowe’en candy in 2007. “ Chaos overwhelms the poor ” describes that neighborhood.) Light...

(Transcribed from an e-mail I sent my mother 24 August 2010.) Jesus said any number of things in large part, at least, for shock value....

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