Content about Jesus

November 1, 2005

Sadness

Richard Rohr sums up this whole spirituality of initiation in a one liner: the young man who cannot cry is a savage, the old man who cannot laugh is a fool.

It's a privilege to speak to a group of people who, from your first hand experience in the field of healthcare, most likely know much more about the topic of sadness than I do. In my remarks this evening I will speak as a Christian but more out of my Roman Catholic tradition as I think it might be helpful to the context of sadness.

December 1, 2003

Jesus in the Manger

For Richard Rohr the question is always "how can we turn information into transformation?" How can we use the sacred texts to lead people into new places with God, with life, with themselves?

The question for us is always "how can we turn information into transformation?" How can we use the sacred texts to lead people into new places with God, with life, with themselves? This is surely true with our Lucan texts on the birth of Jesus. They have largely been sentimentalized in Christmas card fashion. We enjoy such "Christmas cards", yet they don't really change our lives in any substantive way.

September 1, 2003

The Two Halves of Life?

History has recognized that there are at least two major movements in the spiritual journey. Richard Rohr calls them the path of ascent and the path of descent.

September 1, 1988

Masculine Spirituality

Masculine spirituality is not just for men, although it is men who are most likely going to have to rediscover and exemplify it.

Masculine spirituality. Perhaps the term sounds new, different, even wrong or unnecessary. Why would we bother speaking of a spirituality that is especially masculine or male? Is there anything to be learned here? Anything that can help both men and women to meet the Christ? I am convinced that there is. Let's see if we can look at it.