Minute Meditations

As Bonaventure writes, God is “totally submerged in the waters from the sole of the foot to the top of the head…. [God] appeared to you as your beloved cut through with wound upon wound in order to heal you.”

The first Franciscans believed that God was in the world, actively shaping human experience, and inspiring birds’ songs and wolves’ howls.

If Christian faith is to be meaningful to twenty-first-century individuals and play a positive role in healing the earth and its peoples, Christians must choose the way of loving relatedness.

Prayer as a spiritual practice never goes out of style. Prayer is a powerful way of participating in divine community.

To those who left all things, Jesus had promised eternal life and a hundredfold besides—now!

True mysticism allows us to fish from a different side of the boat, and with a different expectation of what success might mean.