
Joy, Love & Consciousness Among All Creatures
Aquinas connects joy to consciousness when he says, “God is supremely joyful and therefore supremely conscious.” Is that your experience too, that consciousness and joy
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Aquinas connects joy to consciousness when he says, “God is supremely joyful and therefore supremely conscious.” Is that your experience too, that consciousness and joy

We are meditating on Joy as a sign of holiness. A patriarchal version of Divinity appears more occupied with judgement and denunciations than with joy. A

April 24, 2023. Exuberance, Exultation, Belonging: Moving beyond ShameIn this meditation, we explore the good reason we have for being both exuberant and exultant about

Let us celebrate today, Earth Day, with joy and gusto and gratitude. Let us rejoice not at what we have made but what Earth and

March 13, 2023. Joy! Why We Are All HereMatthew poses the delightful questions: Did you ever consider that maybe the “Big Bang” was a Big

The Divine Joy. Did you ever consider that maybe the “Big Bang” was a Big Laugh? Or a Big Shout of Joy? That the Trinity could not take

Speaking of festivity and celebration, I am moved by Yeats’ simple poem: We must laugh and we must sing, We are blessed by everything Everything

Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to

To commit to Joy and Justice and Celebration, as Barbara Ehrenreich does, is to commit to Compassion. As Meister Eckhart tells us, “what happens to another, whether it

Barbara Ehrenreich’s pursuit of truth was a prophetic work and a spiritual commitment. Her critique of society’s sins and falsities was the same. Her looking for alternatives was
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