Tag Archive for: religion

Revolutionaries and religion

“The religious experience can be found in its deepest dimensions within the secular experience. The religious experience is the secular experience of self‐transcendence."

God as a verb

I have devoted many of my poems to reflections on spirituality after a career of teaching and writing about religion. I have hoped to nudge readers into the present moment.

Ecology and our religious consciousness

Honesty demands that in the realm of doctrine, Christianity does not lend itself easily to becoming a nature spirituality. Ecology has hardly penetrated the shell of modern Christianity. The new challenge calls us far beyond recycling, or a few prayers for the earth at Mass, or turning the church garden into a bird sanctuary.

The divine in every molecule

A Heretic’s Christmas “For unto us a child is born…and his nameshall be called the Mighty God, the everlasting Father.” (Handel’s “Messiah”) I respect the Christmas traditionsof song, music and mythic stories,but the early…