Take the word Mother
Take the word mother. To use this word it is not necessary to radiate maternal concern, to feel longings and stirrings, to be motherly. But it is possible to us...
Category: Spirituality
‘Take it Easy on Me’ — The way of imperfection
There’s really only one assumption we can make about one another: that is, within all of us, there’s a little war going on between who we know ourse...
Forsaken Friday, Easter, and why I’m still a Christian
I became a Christian because early in life I was given the language: sin, debt, fear, hell, wrath—grace, love, repentance, atonement, heaven…these were the econ...
Sap of sublime madness
You will hear, in Chris Hedges’ dystopian essay, “The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies,” the clear echoes of the p...