Jesus disrupts all my partisan inclinations. Allegiances born of partisanship are governed by emotional attachment which is why a great many people can’t talk about politics without getting upset.

I tried to gossip with Teresa of Avila as we walked down the path. This person we both know had done something really foolish, and I wanted to tell Teresa about it because I thought she’d want to know. I don’t know why I thought that.

I told Thomas Kelly about my schedule as we walked along the path. I was proud and thought he’d be impressed. He said, “Gosh, you must be really important. Or maybe you’re trying to prove something?

I told Etty Hillesum that I was upset about a change that had been made as we walked along the path. She laughed and said, “Who isn’t?”

I told John of the Cross about my desire for inner peace as we walked along the path. He said, “The biggest obstacle to attaining inner peace is your desire for inner peace.”

“The only thing about which you should complain is that you do complain,” said Meister Eckhart to me as we walked along the path…

You can’t outrun love. That’s true. There is nowhere that God is not, and God is love, so it’s pretty simple math - you can’t outrun love. The best theological treatment of that fact can be found in…

In the depth of one’s own soul each of us is welcomed with the infinity of God’s own hospitality into the original union that is the source of all that is and ever will be…

If I think about my own story and all my missteps and misdeeds, then I think about all the history I’ve studied, I suddenly remember…

My working definition of love is: an outpouring of longing and affection that does not require, need, or want return…

To be born again from above means to let go of all control, to forget everything we know, and re-enter the sacred ignorance of childhood as creatures entirely directed by the love of Jesus. You cannot…

There are two ways to walk into a room. You can walk in as a critic, or you can walk into the room as salt…

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a gift to be lived. When life feels like an obstacle course in which I simply move from one challenge to the next in an…

We can talk about the issues if you want to. What’s on your mind? Abortion, immigration, death penalty, nuclear non-proliferation? We can talk about whatever you want to talk about. Before we dive in, consider this…

The meek are not weak. The meek are the strongest among us. They are often quiet and are always…

Jesus told stories, lots of them. One teacher* says, Jesus didn’t give lectures, write creeds, or teach theology. Jesus told stories and…

God is everything. That is, if I can discover and touch the Divine spark that indwells my actual body, then I will have all that I need and…