Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
2011-02-01 Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places Most of us look for love in only the most obvious places, and as a result, most of us come away disappointed. It’s as if we are still grade school kids, counting valentines as a measure of what matters. The love that matters is not typically…
Read MoreLove First
2011-02-01 Love First What we need is a revolution in our values, a revolution that turns our attention more reverently and responsibly to the interdependent, relational character of life. What we need is a spiritual and practical revolution that embodies love for neighbor and for the world through sustaining structures of care and responsibility…. Loving…
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
2011-02-01 From Your Minister by Meg Riley Senior Minister, Church Of The Larger Fellowship In a book I read years ago, called The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis describes the ancient Greeks’ understanding of love. I think that there are probably dozens of kinds of love—I have been wishing for a new word just to describe…
Read MoreREsources for Living
2011-02-01 REsources For Living by Lynn Ungar, Minister For Lifespan Learning, Church Of The Larger Fellowship What with Valentine’s Day being in February, we decided that this issue of Quest should be on the theme of love. It’s a topic with plenty of room for things to say. For instance, back in 1986 Whitney Houston…
Read MoreLove Dogs
2011-02-01 Love Dogs by Rumi One night a man was crying, “Allah, Allah!” His lips grew sweet with the praising, until a cynic said, “So! I have heard you calling out, but have you ever gotten any response?” The man had no answer for that. He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep. He…
Read MoreA Pattern So Vast
I still use the copy of The Joy of Cooking I got for Christmas in 1969. This now-fragile cookbook has memories stained into many of its pages (especially the peanut-butter cookie page).
Read MoreFinding Our Place in the World
It was the third summer of my seminary training, and I was completing the required “Clinical Pastoral Education” by serving as a student chaplain in a women’s prison near Tacoma, Washington.
Read MoreThe stories we tell…
The stories we tell of heaven and hell are not about how we die, but about how we live.
Read MoreFrom Your Minister
I have mentioned my garden in past columns—how much joy and life I find there and how central to my spiritual practice it is from spring through fall.
Read MoreREsources for Living
I’ve been thinking about the Days of Turning, the ten days between Rosh Hashana (September 28th this year) and Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashana is the Jewish New Year…
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