Two years ago this month, I spent a glorious five days at my favorite Benedictine monastery learning more about a 16th-century Carmelite nun who reformed much of the monastic community of her day by training the women—and then many of the men—in prayer. Not the verbal kind of prayer but the practice of meditation, contemplation,Continue reading “So Teresa of Avila & Martin Luther walk into a bar….”
Category Archives: Art as a Window to the Divine
No More Than A Hundred Years Are We Given
So begins the song Mighty Sound by the band Tim B Told. A week ago I knew nothing about them. Now they are working their way under my skin, my psyche, my spirit like threads of silken light. Maybe they’ll do the same for you. Pax
What Does Liberation Look Like?
There is a preconception in our culture that to be a person of faith means to live a small, tight, narrow life, but that has not been my experience. Far from it. In truth, the deeper I go, the freer I get, until all there is are the gifts God has given me and theContinue reading “What Does Liberation Look Like?”
Silence my soul, these trees are prayers. I ask the tree, “Tell me about God”; then it blossomed. —Rabindranath Tagore
They Are Not Commandments
Sometimes we lose sight of the big picture because we get tripped up in the details. So it is with the story of Moses, and, in particular, Moses on the mountaintop receiving the ten commandments. This is the first deception, the word “commandment.” Because nowhere in the Bible, in any translation, are they actually calledContinue reading “They Are Not Commandments”
Heather Choate Davis 