Is A Puzzlement!

…To quote the King of Siam. (The King and I)    The Universe is a great, multi-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, with no outside edges.  Each of us has bags of pieces collected over our lifetimes from our own life-experience, and from others whose experience we trust.   This blog is where I pour out bits from my …

Pinning Down ‘God’

PART ONE: DISTINGUISHING RELIGION FROM SPIRITUALITY It has been said that there are as many recipes for borscht as there are Russians. Of course, borscht is a matter of personal taste, and only really important to beet fanciers. If there are any wars fought over which borscht is best, they are probably very small, and …

More or Less

To those who have much, more will be given. Those who have little will lose what little they have. This New Testament assertion perturbs the part of me that naturally inclines to lift up the underdog, to demand balance and fairness. It is intuitively wrong, socially irresponsible! It seems very unlike other messages of Jesus …