The Other Jesus

From an essay I’m working on–and a speech I’m giving next weekend. Hope you enjoy it:

 
 Discernment 

“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.”
 
So begins Thomas Merton’s famous prayer, and although this beginning always surprises me, I […]

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In one of the creation stories we find in Genesis, God looks over the world he has brought into being, our world, and pronounces it good. And so it is, as God is good, and beautiful, as God is beautiful, for how could the created object not possess—to some lesser or greater degree—the qualities of […]

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