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The Art of Aloneness

The sense of being alone is far too common in this world.  Some of the most obvious reasons are the widow, the orphan, the misfits, the divorced, and yes, the unhappily married…just to name a few. I imagine the ways each person who finds themselves in alone places either regularly or from time to time are as unique as the person.  There is a quotation I’ve liked that came from James Taylor in one of his documentary interviews: ​ “To me, very...

Jesus, Our Mediator

Our relationship with Jesus is the most personal and precious and open and vulnerable relationship we can imagine and cultivate.  In my view, it is one where there are no rules.  No right or wrong way to talk to Him and with Him.Because we can trust that the gentlest of hands – His hands – will sift through the wheat and the chaff of our expressions – keeping and especially acting upon what He knows to be good, right and...

Podcast and Book Link: “Jesus and John Wayne”

​Taking a brief moment to link a good podcast by Lee Camp I just listened to featuring a talk with Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.The title/topic caught my eye as I have listened to this audiobook back around January 2021.  Last August 2020 I had added a piece here called The Enthusiastic Election of the Embodiment of All Seven Deadly Sins which was my expressed view at that time and...

The Rubik’s Cube of Divorce

​​I once sat with a trusted clergyperson and touched upon various things from my first failed marriage. I said to them, like I have said at times to a few other people:Divorce is like a Rubik’s cube you cannot solve. You just keep turning and turning over all the various parts – where did this go wrong – what if I hadn’t married this person – then I wouldn’t have my children – what if this?…what if that?…did I fail...