by Guy Sayles | Dec 16, 2008 |
Richard Rohr, in the collection of reflections I am reading this Advent season, writes:Several years ago when I was in Nicaragua, I asked a man if he had time, and he said, “I have the rest of my life,” and smiled. Who of us would possibly say that? That...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 9, 2008 |
This Advent season, I am pondering some of the implications of the incarnation–of the wonder and mystery of God’s choosing to become most fully known to us in the limits and glories of a human life, the life of Jesus. I said to our deacons last night that...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 2, 2008 |
One of my practices this Advent season is reading daily reflections from Richard Rohr’s book, Preparing for Christmas. Rohr is a Catholic priest and founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque. He is a provocative and creative thinker,...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 26, 2008 |
Thanksgiving is upon us, but some of us are not feeling as grateful as we think we should feel. We recognize an obligation to be grateful, but that recognition does not, by itself, make us feel grateful. Telling us we ought to feel grateful when we don’t is like...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 20, 2008 |
When psychiatrist and writer Robert Coles was still in medical school, he had a fifthenn year old, patient, Phil, who was suffering from polio. Both of the Phil’s parents were dead: his father had been killed in WWII, and his mother had died in an automobile accident....
by Guy Sayles | Nov 14, 2008 |
Thomas Kelly was a mid-2oth Century Quaker mystic and writer who is best know for his now-classic book, A Testament of Devotion. In it, Kelly makes this simple and profound distinction: “Too many well-intentioned people are so preoccupied with the clatter of...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 12, 2008 |
I have been reading a provocative book (about which I have drawn few conclusions, except that it should not be ignored) by James W. Douglass, entitled JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters (Orbis Books, 2008).Douglass includes as an appendix to the...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 7, 2008 |
Welcome to From the Intersection. In this space, I’ll reflect on the intriguing and often complex relationship between “culture” and “faith.” The culture in which I live and on which I’ll reflect is, in one way, the same culture in...
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