Lao Tzu called it Tao, “the Way,” since it permeates everything and wants to draw me into peaceful places. Gratitude supplants fear for the most part as one grows older. I’m thankful older folk gave the love, resources, and guidance for me to discover what is important in life, and to pass this knowledge on […]
A note from the Yale Forum on Religion and ecology: Pope Francis released a new encyclical in Assisi on October 3 for the Feast of St. Francis. The title, “Fratelli Tutti,” can be translated as “Brothers and Sisters, All.” It highlights the theme of friendship and kinship, calling for peace and harmony among all peoples, religions, and nations.
Powerful leaders (autocrats like Trump and Boltisaro) can’t worry about how they hurt others…e.g. the ride for T around the military hospital today. Others are infected. Mystics confront the strange and even awful, as there may be wisdom in the pain and fright.
Hello friends, the Season of Creation spans 34 days. It began Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. It concludes Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology. It started in 1989, when Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I proclaimed Sept. 1 a day of prayer […]
Hello, friends,The University of Georgia football season begins next Saturday. I don’t see myself as a person without angers toward violence, but so many young men injure themselves early in mind and body for later life. Much of the football system captures them as youngsters and keeps them from learning more rewarding ventures. You really […]