Beatitudes Blog
Our Greatest Fear and Deepest Desire
Do you want to get closer to God? It is very human to say yes. It is equally human to say no.
Crisis Telephone Contemplation
As a boy, I was called by Christ. Literally.
Righteousness versus Rightness
Does your deepest hunger have to do with love?
A Writer’s Confession
I do not write for you to remember me. I write for you to remember yourself. Find words for your experience in my words.
“Only the Suffering God Can Help”
Recall a seemingly graceless time when God showed up. My thoughts on what that’s about…
Own Your Poverty: Thomas Merton on Understanding God’s Love for You
You own your poverty by grace, and while it instills a sadness and longing of its own, it is strangely freeing.
Breaking the Messianic Secret
Jesus reveals why he pled for the messianic secret at the climax at the story, at the cross.
Unassailable Security and the Way of the Cross
From the cross, the furthest point from unassailable security, God’s power emerged in Christ, saving the world.
Spiritual but Religious Anyway
Do the church’s problems stem from being too religious or not religious enough?
Mercy on the Bloody Pass
That’s how I worship the only God I care to worship, the one who wants mercy on the Bloody Pass.
Comedy in the Book of Jonah
Amid the thundering proclamations of the prophets, a little piece of comedy appears: The Book of Jonah.
The Blessed Exercise of Power: An Inaugural Reflection
On the source of power and how to use it.
As a psychotherapist and spiritual director, I bring well-honed insight and skill to these posts; yet, my vulnerability plays a more important part, for more than advice from experts, serious people of faith need resonance with fellow travelers.
In my writing and in your reading and comments, may we face our challenges in God’s compassionate presence rather than in a private dressing room where we try in vain to make ourselves presentable to God at an appointed meeting. God meets us where we are.
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