The Faith I Was Born Into Formed

Poetry Is A Special Use Of Language That Opens Onto The Real. The Business Of The Poet Is Truth Telling, Which Is Why In The Celtic Tradition No One Could Be A Teacher Unless He Or She Was A Poet.

I Have A Body And I Have A Soul. And My Body Belongs To The Faith - In Fact, The Church - Into Which It Was Born, The Methodist Church.

It Remained For The Twentieth Century To Discover That Locked Within The Atom Is The Energy Of The Sun Itself. For This Energy To Be Released, However, The Atom Must Be Bombarded From Without. So Too, Locked In Every Human Being Is A Store Of Love That Partakes Of The Divine-the Imago Dei-image Of God, It Is Sometimes Called. And It Too Can Be Activated Only Through Bombardment, In Its Case Love's Bombardment

A Religion Made Up Solely Of Heightened Religious Experiences Would Not Be A Religion At All. ...the Major Religious Traditions Address The Mysteries (with Or Without Entheogens), But They Have Other Business To Do: Widen Understanding, Give Meaning, Provide Solace, Promote Loving-kindness, And Connect Human Being To Human Being.

Seen Through The Eyes Of Faith, Religion's Future Is Secure. As Long As There Are Human Beings, There Will Be Religion For The Sufficient Reason That The Self Is A Theomorphic Creature - One Whose Morphe (form) Is Theos - God Encased Within It. Having Been Created In The Imago Dei, The Image God, All Human Beings Have A God-shaped Vacuum Built Into Their Hearts. Since Nature Abhors A Vacuum, People Keep Trying To Fill The One Inside Them.