A Finger Pointing at the Moon: Breaking Open Christian Belief
I’ve said in previous posts that Catholicism is a color in my palette as a life artist. Lately, I am seeing that the tradition constitutes quite a lot of the colors. While I’m inspired by Zen Buddhism and yoga and shamanic practice, the Catholic Church continuously compels me in both its beauty and its hideousness,…
A Spirituality Experiment
For the last five years (well, if you count my last two years of college, seven), I’ve been on a spiritual path. Destination: enlightenment. Or salvation, in Catholic terminology. And I was very confused for most of those years. This year, I have decided to take a different direction. As I read the Gospels, I…
The Whole-Hearted Human Being
I have a special interest in the non-canonical scriptures of the Christian tradition. Perhaps it’s because I chafe at the idea of orthodoxy and “right belief.” Almost always, those who insist there is only one way of seeing things become more violent than those whose view they oppose. We’ve seen this borne out many times…