February 3, 2026
The Lord’s Reassuring Voice
Though we think of ourselves as followers of Jesus, we are often seduced by the fearful questions the world presents to us.
February 2, 2026
Love Filled Answers
When we consider how much our educational, political, religious, and even social lives are geared to finding answers to questions born of fear…
February 1, 2026
Resisting Fearful Questions
The agenda of our world - the issues and items that fill newspapers and newscasts - is an agenda of fear and power. It is amazing, yes frightening, to see how easily that agenda becomes ours.
January 31, 2026
We Love Because He First Loved Us
The mystery of God‘s presence can be touched only by a deep awareness of his absence.
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 . . .