by Guy Sayles | May 31, 2015 |
“Threes” seem to pervade our experience.In The Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe, Michael Schneider noted that ancient mathematicians thought of the numbers “one” and “two” as the parents of all the other numbers. “Three” was their firstborn....
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...
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