I have been reading, off and on, through Robert Webber’s “The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life” The book is broken down into two parts: Part One: The Crisis – How Spirituality Became Separated from the Divine Embrace Part Two: The Challenge: Returning Spirituality to the Divine Embrace The entire first section is basically […] Continue reading
For all the Kurt Vonnegut fans… Thank you, Kurt Vonnegut For making it real For knowing the names Of history’s thrill For telling it so That I understand That the way to withstand Is not through a man Or not by the ways All the classy people fathom By reaching for demons And calling […] Continue reading
Dedicated to Lee C. Camp. ”Damn you Lee, I will never be the same…” What if he’s not the god of the famed Bringing death to the wicked who threaten your name Who’s enemies and ours are one in the same Who’s bearing the image of corporate shame Who lives by the rules of […] Continue reading
These poems come from a collection of poems I wrote about 3 years ago called “In Between the Times” Love began with a hopeful word Dreadful colors paint the land below Sojourners travel across the sand Moving forward to heal the land Moving forward to heal the land Sojourn across the burning sand Weakness and […] Continue reading
No more tears and no more crying for pain or loss or death or dying Nor is there fighting or war or sorrow or mourning or whining One moment in time it’s taken away All memory of destruction is destroyed With a stroke of the brush creation is re-created With the […] Continue reading
Sit down around downtown’s square Pull us together; pull up a chair Close out the moment and take us back From the streets we walk to the streets beneath Narrate time by telling it well History lives by the stories we sell Pedal the one that’s relentlessly true But give it away for free […] Continue reading
I have been writing poetry for a few years now. This is my first time to share that publicly. This one is called “A New Memory” and is one the final poems in a collection of poems I wrote about 3 years ago called “In Between the Times: A Poetic Telling of the Past, Present, […] Continue reading
* Not all of these were published in 2012, I only read them in 2012. 10. Religion & It’s Monsters by Timothy K. Beal Great and honest read that forces us to come to grips with the demons that haunt and possess, or at least, threaten us as religious people with religious lives and commitments. […] Continue reading
This has been very popular today, so I am reposting from a couple years ago. Heed this gospel: A Christmas Sermon on Peace Dr. King first delivered this sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he served as co-pastor. On Christmas Eve, 1967, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation aired this sermon as part of the seventh annual […] Continue reading
