The 27-minute podcast episode How can someone who used to avoid social service start to become a server of all? Here’s an example of how divinity gently transforms us. Photo Credit: By Demeester - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8057114 …
The Transformation Blues
Hear the flowing 42-minute audio file, complete with the 15-second mistake at the beginning From Dante’s Divine Comedy, to 12-Step programs and the Enneagram, insight is mixed with overemphasis on the negative and a failure to recognize the new and better way: we (at least non-addicts) can first be …
Love and cosmic truth
Prefer a 20-minute audio file? Some people we find hard to love. What they say, how they say it; what they do, how they do it . . . their words and deeds get to us; and we react. We stare at the facts that make it hard for us to love someone, and that reinforces our own unbeautiful emotions. Lots of …
The kingdom of God–a moving target
Five minute audio file You enter the kingdom of God—the spiritual family of God—with the faith and trusting dependence of a little child. This is the only way that anyone can enter the spiritual family of God. And it is such a perfect way. This faith and trusting dependence opens you to begin …
Werner Herzog: Is God in Control?
The audio file Werner Herzog’s film, Huie’s Predigt (Huie’s Sermon)—in English with some German subtitles—shows an urban black church service. Even for a one who is familiar with the maturity and wisdom of a great black preacher—Dr. Anthony Gatewood was for me the best preacher in my area—the film …
Coffeehouse Contemplative
Audio file Some books come along at the perfect time. Not only do you need them, but they prepare you for themselves—I almost want to use personal terms to speak about them, because you come to experience the author as a companion. The freshest example for me is Coffeehouse Contemplative, a 2016 …
