
Coming up for Air: Spirituality and Justice from Thomas Aquinas
We have, necessarily it seems to me, been meditating on the very dark news coming from the current very compromised Supreme Court since they laid
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We have, necessarily it seems to me, been meditating on the very dark news coming from the current very compromised Supreme Court since they laid

We have been meditating on the signs of holiness in our time and have named two in previous meditations: Joy and Courage. Now we are considering

We spoke yesterday about how sometimes we choose fear. Why would anyone choose fear over love? Sometimes, to make money. Big money and big power. Riling up fear

A fine article in the Washington Post this weekend by Christine Emba explored the cause of the American gun fetish. In America today there are about 393 million

One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy

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

Buddhism offers the “Noble Eight-Fold Path” as a way that all should follow. Among these Eight Paths is that of “Right Speech.” One who follows that Path

My teaching about Original Blessing that so disturbed the previous two popes can be understood as an exegesis of the first page of the Bible. There

Rabbi Heschel cautions that it is not enough to have a regard for the Ground of Being. We must also have “concern for the unregarded.” This is
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