My evening devotional reading over the last few weeks has involved delving again into the writings of George MacDonald.  MacDonald's t...

Yesterday, as I bumbled my way through a reasonably productive Monday, I encountered two things that got me thinking about faith and languag...

As summer arrives, my first bit of reading for the season is some unfinished business from the winter.   I am, at long last, making my way t...

In a post over at thehardestquestion , Carol Howard Merritt recently pitched out a really solid reflection on 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 .   The es...

This week, my efforts to come up with an interpretive/metaphoric frame for my sermon kept frustrating me. It wasn't that my Tuesday mo...

I have, for the last month or so, been engaging in a slightly different pattern of morning devotion. First thing upon waking, I do what I t...

One of the more paradoxical things that one encounters in the reading of mystics like George MacDonald is the juxtaposition of their earthy,...

Another of the ways that mysticism tends to get spun in our consumption-addled culture is as a means to the acquisition of more stuff. Why s...

One of the ways mystics tend to get themselves into trouble is in their tendency to be... well... oblivious to the siren song of doctrinal p...

Mysticism is typically construed as being the faith of the esoteric, a faith full of odd chants and visions, of obscure dreams and convolute...

As I fumble my way through the endless supply of stuff I Really Should Read, I've finally gotten around to George MacDonald. MacDonald i...