by Guy Sayles | May 28, 2015 |
Sometimes, the tragedy, violence, suffering, and despair which fill the world overwhelm me, and I can’t help but ask, “Where is God?”There’s no greater theological and emotional problem than “the problem of evil”: If God is all-loving and all-powerful, why do evil,...
by Guy Sayles | May 26, 2015 |
My post for today’s Center for Healthy Churches Newsletter:http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e7d471250200d4bcdf5c4b404&id=0f4a798a41&e=6568f513d5
by Guy Sayles | May 24, 2015 |
Priest and paleontologist, Teilhard de Chardin said that “Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.”Jesus was a person of unmistakable and contagious joy which flowed from his unswerving conviction that God is love and loves everyone—no exceptions, no...
by Guy Sayles | May 21, 2015 |
At the corner of College Street and Haywood Road yesterday, near Mayfels’ Restaurant, a rail-thin young man, wearing a Santa hat over his shoulder-length hair and sweating profusely in the bright May midday sun, screeched out “Silent Night” on his not-well-tuned...
by Guy Sayles | May 19, 2015 |
In the Book of Common Prayer, Collect 57, “For Guidance,” asks “that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name.” I am intrigued especially by the challenge to “end our works in God.” That phrase raises the possibility of...
by Guy Sayles | May 14, 2015 |
Early in my college years, I struggled to reclaim faith. At least that’s what the struggle seemed to be about as I was living through it. Looking back, it seems more likely that I was actually struggling for a way to let myself be reclaimed by a loving...
by Guy Sayles | May 7, 2015 |
In his book, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen wrote: “Every moment of each day I have the chance to choose between cynicism and joy. . . . Increasingly I discover that every choice for joy in turn reveals more joy and offers more reason to make life a true...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 29, 2015 |
Years ago, near President’s Day, some of the kids in our church’s Childhood Development Center made newsprint posters which bore the heading, “If I were president, I would. . . .” With the help of their teachers, the children imagined what they would do if...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 21, 2015 |
The Book of Common Prayer incudes a grateful and humble acknowledgment of “this fragile earth, our island home.” It’s a moving phrase; and, on this Earth Day, I pray that we will love this fragile earth with courageous and tender love, realizing that it’s not a...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 15, 2015 |
Have you tuned-in lately to the running play-by-play commentary on your life that is constantly blaring away in your heart and mind? 24/7/365, whether we’re conscious of it or not, harsh natter and chatter away with messages which belittle and berate us....
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