(This is the second half of a sermon I began in the previous post. Do read the first half first…) The word miracle comes to us from Latin, through Anglo-French and into Middle English. The Late Latin word is miraculum from its earlier root mirari, to wonder. To wonder. Beauty, then, is that which brings […]
In all the tumult of life, the daily and hourly news cycle, the seemingly unending slings and arrows of life on Earth, we are reminded by wise ones all over the world that we are also here now, together, and are given the opportunity to fall in love with one another. So as Mary Oliver […]
I was so pleased to be asked to speak on the VUU this morning: the Church of the Larger Fellowship’s panel discussion on various topics of the day. Today was about Earth-based/Pagan practice and its intersections with Unitarian Universalism. We had a great time. Let me know what you think! Click on the link above […]
Ecstasy of St Teresa The above image is taken from the Santa Maria Della Vittoria in Rome. The sculpture is a masterpiece image representing the religious ecstasy of the 16th Century Catholic Saint St Teresa of Avila (canonised 1622). By all accounts St Teresa was a master of the spiritual arts, and had frequent mystical […]
I have written about spiritual pillaging. And about spiritual tourism. And now I write about spiritual guests. In some traditions I have been a guest; more than just a visitor, but not a full member of the community. My time with the Religious Society of Friends, also called the Quakers, and my time with African […]