Illusion? Reality? In Between? In the very earliest of time… a person could become an animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being… and there was no difference. All spoke the same language. That was the time when words were like magic. The human mind had mysterious powers… and what […]
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From his new novel: First Church: Spiritual Wokism in the Pews Today We decided we would go to the Halloween party together: I, a senior gay white male liberal minister, and she, a lesbian Anglo/Native American New Age flower child experiencing her early-fifties. She was also the church’s religious education director. Her name was Fred.
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A Small Reflection I was already retired from a nearly 40-year career as a minister when I learned the truth. It came in an email from the nephew who told me that his uncle, my minister when I was a kid, had been a gay man who was “outed” only after he had died in
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Part Three There are 104 countries which celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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Part Two There are 104 countries which celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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Part One One hundred and four countries celebrate Mother’s Day; 77 of them (including the U.S. and Mexico) celebrate the day in May. It is a good thing to do, but I have always felt that the day should also include honoring the various women in our lives who have made a significant impact on
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The depth psychologists tell us that we human beings are composed of multiple layers of being, or consciousness. Some believe that we are innately comprised of a collective unconscious – that we have an archetypal memory that calls to us down through the generations as a species, to fashion our existence with common-enough and familiar
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I will turn 80 years old on February 27, 2025. So, I thought I would tell you what I’ve figured out about life so far. * 80 is a number. A BIG number. And to me any number (but especially 80 these days) that ends with a zero seems formidable. I am not exactly sure
How to be Wise in the New Year I have had this life-long desire to find someone who is wise, who, with his or her wisdom, will provide instructions for me so that I might blithely traverse this “vale of tears” (as Shakespeare refers to human existence). Ever feel this way? Ever seek someone who
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Listen to the Nightbirds Sing The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi knows what is required of us at this holiday season: No more words…Stay quiet like a flower.So the nightbirds will start singing. The nightbirds – a symbol of our deeper self; that which understands even beyond our conscious being, that there is more to our
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