06 Oct, 2025
We continue our series on Luke 6 and Jesus’ blessings and woes by looking at three woes. Woe to the rich, the full and those who laugh… I read this and I wonder, is Jesus pointing a finger at me? Do you ever feel this way? After all, even if we...
29 Sep, 2025
The gospels at times are challenging because they are layered with meaning. Too often we choose to read them literally, at face value. It’s certainly easier than digging into the context, translations, audiences and logic. The blessing we’re...
22 Sep, 2025
For the next four weeks we’re going to be talking about Jesus’ speech in Luke 6 on Blessings and Woes , which is the prelude for his Sermon on the Plain . We balk at some of these. Some of them make us uncomfortable. Some are hard to understand...
15 Sep, 2025
As we celebrate the 14 th anniversary of Sacred Journeys, let’s talk dreams. Jack Kornfield, in No Time Like the Present, wrote, “When you understand that your lie is your canvas, your dreams can open and become bigger or more modest, more...
08 Sep, 2025
The wisdom book of Ecclesiastes was written by a person called simply Qoheleth. Qoheleth (interestingly enough, a feminine word) was the Hebrew word for someone who gathers other together, in this case like a teacher or preacher. In...
02 Sep, 2025
Let me begin with a wisdom story from a Sufi writer (remember Jesus appears in the Quran as well as the Bible): A Sufi writer once said of Jesus that sometimes people would make fun of Jesus or curse him aloud, but that he would always answer...
25 Aug, 2025
Patience… How many of you consider yourselves to be very patient people? I try, but sometimes I feel like I may have been there on the day they were handing it out, but I probably left because the line was too long! Patience is what the apostle...
18 Aug, 2025
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 is clear… two people are better than one. Together you get more work done, you support one another, you can keep each other warm, protect one another and are stronger. Yep. We know this. And we’ve talked about long-term,...
28 Jul, 2025
There are so many Ordinary Things we can learn from, teachers beside us at every moment, that I imagine we could continue this series for a long time. For now, we’re going to end it with The Lesson of the Tree . It probably should have been...
21 Jul, 2025
Ordinary things… we’ve been talking about ordinary things for a few weeks now… small drab brown things that embody the sacred as much as anything else, the echoes of what we put out into the world coming back to us, the teachers by our side at...