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Lent

Who Came Out Of The Empty Tomb?

April 9, 2023 by David Anderson 10 Comments

Here’s Easter in two contrasting images. The first is the kind of Easter picture most of us are familiar with. It’s the lone Jesus whooshing up out of the tomb. There’s nothing wrong about the image. Jesus certainly defeated death. But, in their new book, “Resurrecting Easter,” John Dominic Crossan and Sarah Crossan identify this […]

Filed Under: Community, Grace, Heaven, Lent, Mercy

What Kind Of A God Would Die On A Cross?

April 6, 2023 by David Anderson 11 Comments

A Prayer to the God Who Fell From Heaven If you had stayedtightfisted in the skyand watched us thrashwith all the patience of a pipe smoker,I would pray like a golden bulletaimed at your heart.But the story saysyou criedand so heavy was the tearyou fell with it to earthhere like a baritone in a barit […]

Filed Under: Belief, Grace, Lent, Love, Mercy

Who Is Hard For You To Love? (And How Might You Love Them Anyway?)

April 4, 2023 by David Anderson 3 Comments

“We love because God loved us first” (1 John 4:19). That truth is especially sublime when we hear it in Holy Week, when we watch with awe as someone embraces the whole world in love—and chooses to die rather than limiting or qualifying that love. If Jesus had recanted, if he had just admitted that, […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Choice, Daily Practice, Family, Grace, Healing, Lent, Love, Surrender, Transformation

What Are You Willing To Suffer For?

April 2, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Palm Sunday—the Sunday of the Passion—is a good moment to stop and consider this question. When I tried to answer it, my first thoughts leapt to the heroic. What cross would I die on? What great cause could demand, as the hymn sings it, “my soul, my life, my all”? Once I recognized the ego […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Choice, Fear, Forgiveness, Grace, Lent, Letting Go, Reality--trusting it, Surrender, Transformation

Of All The Things You Have Done In Your Life, Which Is The One You Would Most Like To Undo?

March 30, 2023 by David Anderson 8 Comments

Plenty of people, especially near the end of life, claim they have no regrets. We ought to feel sorry for them. To regret something we’ve done is to acknowledge a higher principle than we were able to live up to. Regret can strengthen our moral character: Never again will I do something like that. If […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Character, Grace, Healing, Lent, Mercy

What If I’ve Lost My Way?

March 28, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Speaking of her early stage of faith, writer and retreat leader Paula D’Arcy shared a dream in which the kitchen table of her childhood disappeared. That table symbolized the beautiful security of her early years. It was the heart of her childhood home, where she learned her Baltimore Catechism, mastered every question, and came to […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Belief, Change, Faith/Trust, Family, Lent, Letting Go, Reality--trusting it, Surrender

Are You Spiritually Bypassing?

March 26, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Every once in a while, you hear a term that perfectly describes something you’ve experienced but didn’t have a name for. That’s how I felt when someone used the phrase “spiritual bypass,” coined by psychologist John Welwood in the 80s. He defined it as a “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Belief, Lent, Reality--trusting it

What is Jesus’ ‘Theory of Change’?

March 23, 2023 by David Anderson 6 Comments

Jesus did not try to change one person. He certainly didn’t set out to change the world. We hear a lot these days about “theory of change.” It’s a term in non-profit, philanthropy and development that describes the organization’s goal of social change and the step-by-step process for achieving it. I’m sure it does all […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Family, Grace, Lent, Transformation

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