As a child, I learned from the Baltimore Catechism that God has only one nature – a divine one – but has three distinct persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. St. Patrick allegedly used a shamrock to explain this idea of Trinity to the Celts of Ireland in 432 CE. Read more
I’m sitting in the waiting room of The Radiant Light Healing Spa (a.k.a. Radiation Oncology Department) watching a video of a growing nebula in a distant part of the galaxy. It is intended to comfort me. Yet, why is this happening to me and my body? Read more
For the Celts, Bealtaine is one of four great times when the planet becomes a Caol Áit (a thin place). For those who want to draw closer to God, it is a chance to ascend to higher levels of reality. Read more
The Hebrew term translated as “image” (tselem and variations) has several other uses: a phantom, illusion, resemblance, a representative figure, an idol. Rather than humans created “in” the image of God, were humans perhaps created as the image of God? Read more
I recently had an image of the major events in the life of Mother Mary and her son, Jesus. Here are Gospel passages, arranged chronologically, and written as if they were entries in Mary’s journal. Read more
She hadn’t expected it would end like this. It was still difficult to believe it had really happened. But, like everything else about him, she accepted it completely with total love. Read more
The essence of personal evolution – psychological and spiritual – is that we use ‘uncomfortable’ life situations to grow. Is Homo Narcississimus the self-appointed exception? Read more
The perception of society as a pyramid of wealth in a world of scarcity fosters the social and political division which plagues us. Read more
Reality is in the mind of the beholder. This is true not just of our visual sense, it’s true of all our senses and of science, religion and ‘the news.’ Read more
I explained to somebody in a therapy session that it is important to test new relationships and not reveal too much too quickly, nor commit one’s heart too soon. Here’s the image I used. Read more
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