Yeshua and Gyna

The encounter between Jesus and the woman of the well, a Samaritan who lived in the village of Sychar. This is a story about a woman so bowled over by love that she is talking about it all over the market place. She has been in love before. Some of the men in the...

Entropy and Sacrament

Gregory Bateson was a noted anthropologist who later became very interested in the theory of communications. In the 1950’s one of his teaching assignments was with psychiatric residents at a mental hospital in California. His first assignment to his students was to...

Not Knowing the Answer

”The Large Hadron Collider, the latest-generation subatomic-particle accelerator, goes online later this year…on the Franco-Swiss border.” So we are told by Richard Panek in his article “Out There” (New York Times Magazine, March 11, 2007). And if the attendant...

God the Innovator

On the weekend of May 27-29, 2011, I enjoyed celebrating years of graduation (in my case, 65) with many college friends, and among them I met Thomas Cotton. On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Thomas Cotton wrote: Graham: as a student of history and quite superficially...

Remember/Create

We are always forgetting things - and then trying to remember. How do we try to remember? we scrabble around trying to connect something we know with the name or date or person we can’t remember. Then usually we give up, or take a rest, “Sleep on...

God’s Lure and God’s Nudge

“JESUS is Lord!” “Lift High The Cross!” These slogans stir me throughout my being. But my mind clicks in, to remember the people who have been forced to proclaim the first, or the people for whom the high-lifted cross was a banner of war and oppression. There is a...