The roads we travel never look the same. Trees grow taller, buildings appear that were not the before; buildings that were always there disappear. Our physical journeys are ever changing as well – hair changes colour, bodies get larger or shorter or wider, they break down and inevitably die. Our faith journey often follows a similar pattern of growth, of health, of disintegration and, perhaps, death. The Atlantic Seminar in Theological Education was born in the summer Continue reading

The mystic Meister Eckhart said, “The process of enlightenment is a process of subtraction, not addition.” We do not have to learn more to become enlightened. We have to let go of our ideas about enlightenment. We have to lose our illusions. We have to abandon our ideas that there is some place to get to, another state to arrive at, more information to acquire. The only thing that keeps any of us from enlightenment is our Continue reading

It happens to all of us. We put our creativity on the back burner and never get to the thing we really want to do. But as we age, there is more urgency, more reasons why our words, our images, our ideas are calling for our attention. We will not be here forever and our minds are never going to be sharper than they are right now.