Listening to Speaking of Faith’s podcast–“Exodus, Cargo of Hidden Stories”–the other night, I loved a particular segment on the issue of asking questions. Certainly, the Passover Seder encourages questions. Younger children ask about the roasted egg…the bitter herbs…the chopped apples and nuts–why are they there? As the children mature, they ask different…and harder questions. Here, […]
The Gods Aren’t Angry
To all you lovely friends of mine in the greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area: You are invited to Eve’s paperback launch party at The Bookcase in Wayzata, tomorrow night (Tuesday night, Feb. 2nd), at 7 pm. I will do a short reading, then you can ask all your burning questions. Anything goes. Yep. I know. You […]
Spiritual Grace
Okay. So. I’ve been thinking about our rapid and unsavory judgments of other people, especially in the area of spirituality. [It spills over into the political realm, and so many others as well, but for now, I want to deal with the “religious” aspect.] As you may already know, I come from an extremely conservative […]
Thin Places
Kevin Kaiser posted this video on his blog last Saturday, in which he discusses how all artists (songwriters, painters, sculptors, speakers, writers…I would add in here, parents*) are in this thin place where heaven and earth touch. We, as artists, talk about more than we know. We talk about love and grace and truth, in […]
God as Literary Character – Part 3
I’ve finished the book…meaning the book God: A Biography by Jack Miles. Here are the last of my jumbled-up thoughts for you to ponder on this beautiful, frozen Tuesday. [It’s one of those days where the frost lines each skinny tree limb, giving the illusion that each massive tree could crack into a million pieces.] […]