by Guy Sayles | Mar 29, 2010 |
You realize, don’t you?, how much ambivalence most of us have about leaders and leadership. Warren Bennis, for many years president of the University of Cincinnati and a noted expert on leadership, wrote a fine but troubling book a few years ago entitled Why Leaders...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 17, 2010 |
All is not well between us and time. Time flies when you’re having fun; but, at the best moments, it seems that time stands still. But, the best moments aren’t necessarily the easiest moments, so that some people remember hard times as good times. Most of those who...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 11, 2010 |
Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th Century priest who founded the Jesuit order and whose Spiritual Exercises have guided people, for centuries now, into a deeper and more richly imaginative praying of the Scriptures, wrote these fine words about love:Many people think love...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 5, 2010 |
Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, ‘Let me go, for the day is breaking.’...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 26, 2010 |
We were created for worship and fashioned for praise. Tortured genius and brilliant critic of the church, Frederick Nietzsche, believed that human beings are driven by a will to power. We are, Nietzsche said, desperate to have a sense of mastery over the sinister,...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 18, 2010 |
Paradox permeates the Christian faith. God is vaster and more mysterious than the universe but as near to us as our own breath. God is higher and holier than we can conceive, but also more loving and compassionate than we can imagine. God is unity and community, one...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 14, 2010 |
I borrowed this phrase from the Anglican John A. T. Robinson: “the human face of God.” Here’s what it means to me: When I look at Jesus, I see what a human being is meant to be: fully alive and fully engaged. Reynolds Price has said that, in Jesus, we...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 11, 2010 |
Here’s a recent attempt I made to offer a brief description of who Jesus is to me. Maybe you will find it helpful: Jesus is God’s voice of love. In his book, The Soul of Christianity, Huston Smith, respected interpreter of the world’s great religions and a...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 4, 2010 |
Wendell Berry says that there are things about being a farmer which can only be known by farming: living on the land over time, tending to it in season and out of season, watching how the wind sweeps across it, observing how water flows over it, seeing the tracks of...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 1, 2010 |
In yesterday’s sermon, I pondered aloud those lyrical lines about love which the Apostle Paul wrote to the troubled church in Corinth. He described (not defined) what love is like:Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It...
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