Spiritual Reflection

  • Breaking faith with each other

    Feb 10, 2024

    God is love. Jesus is love enfleshed. Disrespect, hatred, division, and revenge may never be preached in God’s or Jesus’ name, no matter the cause, no matter the anger, no matter the wrong.

  • The law of gravity and the Holy Spirit

    Jan 27, 2024

    A sound theology and a sound science will both recognise that the law of gravity and the Holy Spirit are one in the same principle.

  • Piety and humour

    Jan 19, 2024

    Piety is the enemy of humor, at least whenever something less than piety is masquerading as piety.

  • Lighting an Advent candle

    Dec 22, 2023

    In the days of apartheid in South Africa, Christians there used to light candles and place them in their windows as a sign to themselves and others that they believed that someday this injustice would end. A candle burning in a window was a sign of hope and a political statement.

  • Our over-complex, tortured selves

    Dec 15, 2023

    Godliness isn’t easy to carry. The infinite inside us doesn’t easily fit itself into the finite. We carry too much divine fire inside to find much peace in this life.

  • Rickard “Rick” Gaillardetz — RIP

    Dec 08, 2023

    No community should botch its deaths. Mircea Eliade said that. What underlies his wisdom here is the truth that what we cease to celebrate we will soon cease to cherish.

  • The pew and the academy

    Dec 01, 2023

    Circles of piety and the academy of theology are not enemies. They need to befriend each other.

  • Helplessness as fruitful

    Nov 24, 2023

    We can be generative through what we actively do for others, and we can be particularly generative when we stand passively with them in helplessness.

  • Love beyond death...

    Nov 19, 2023

    As Christians, we are invited to pray for the dead. Not surprisingly, certain Christians balk at this, protesting that God doesn’t need to be reminded to be merciful and forgiving.

  • The power of words …

    Nov 10, 2023

    Words give us meaning. We can’t make or remake reality, but the words we choose to name our reality can lift us out of the humdrum of everyday experience.