January 30, 2026
Prayer is Grace
We cannot force God into a relationship. God comes to us on his own initiative, and no discipline, effort, or aesthetic practice can make him come.
January 29, 2026
Beyond Reaching Out
Reaching out to our innermost self was not just a reaching out to more of ourselves, to more detailed understanding of our inner complexities.
January 28, 2026
Meeting the Uncreated God
We still have a long way to go before we are ready to meet our God, not the God created by our own hands or mind, but the uncreated God out of whose loving hands we are born.
January 27, 2026
Prayer: Most Human of all Human Acts
It is the most human of all human acts, it is also easily perceived as the most superfluous and superstitious activity.
January 26, 2026
Eternally Real God
The movement from illusion to prayer undergirds and makes possible the movements from loneliness to solitude and from hostility to hospitality, and leads us to the core of the spiritual life.
January 25, 2026
Fulfillment in Powerlessness
Our fulfillment is in offering emptiness, our usefulness in becoming useless, our power in becoming powerless.
January 24, 2026
God is Greater
Just as God cannot be “caught “or “comprehended” in any specific idea, concept, opinion, or conviction, he cannot be defined by any specific feeling or emotion either.
January 23, 2026
Letting Life Enter Us
Poverty of mind as a spiritual attitude is a growing willingness to recognize the incomprehensibility of the mystery of life.
January 22, 2026
The Paradox of Hospitality
It is indeed the paradox of hospitality that poverty makes a good host. Poverty is the inner disposition that allows us to take away our defences and convert our enemies into friends.
January 21, 2026
Finding a Balance
Receptivity and confrontation are the two inseparable sides of Christian witness. They have to remain in careful balance.
January 20, 2026
Listen to the Voice of Love
As a reaction to a very aggressive, manipulative, and often degrading type of evangelization, we sometimes have become hesitant to make our own religious convictions known, thereby losing our sense of witness.
January 19, 2026
No Hiding in Neutrality
When we want to be really hospitable, we not only have to receive strangers, but also to confront them by an unambiguous presence, not hiding ourselves behind neutrality, but showing our ideas, opinions, and lifestyle clearly and distinctly.
January 18, 2026
Receiving Not Imposing
In our world in which so many religious convictions, ideologies and lifestyles come into increasing contact with each other, it is more important than ever to realize that it belongs to the essence …
January 17, 2026
Jesus Reaches Out to Us
Only when we have come in touch with our own life experiences and have learned to listen to our inner cravings for liberation and new life can we realize that Jesus did not just speak, but that he reached out to us in our most personal needs.
January 16, 2026
Searching Without Fear
There are just as many ways to be a Christian as there are Christians, and it seems that more important than the imposition of any doctrine or pre-coded idea is to offer the students the place where they can reveal their…
January 15, 2026
Disarming and Listening
So we can see that creating space is far from easy in our occupied and preoccupied society. And still, if we expect . . .
January 14, 2026
Creating a Spacious Place
Hospitality, therefore, means primarily the creation of a free space where the stranger can enter and become . . .
January 13, 2026
Remembering Our Good Intentions
Our heart might desire to help others: to feed the hungry, visit the prisoners and offer a shelter to travelers; but meanwhile . . .
January 12, 2026
Restoring Hospitality
If there is any concept worth restoring to its original depth and vocative potential, it is the concept of hospitality. . .
January 11, 2026
Compassion Causes Conversion
Compassion born in solitude makes us very much aware of our own historicity. We are not called . . .