We use wonderful words when we talk about our faith. Words like mystery, and silence, and love and discerning the will of God. Each of those words with layers and layers of meaning from thousands of years of human and spiritual experience, including our own.

They all point to the mystery of the flow of Spirit. That is who we are – in our being and in our doing. Day by day, in our meditation and in our living, in our joys and even tragedies of life, we can trust and be in that flow in all things and in every circumstance.

God is essentially mystery, beyond all names. We name the reality beyond naming when we cry from the heart, in the voice of our longing, in our very living and being and doing.

What do you think?

Science and technology are the dominant authorities in our culture as to what is true and real. Science and technology are advancing faster and faster. Can there be a vibrant and powerful Christian faith that does not contradict science? Can we be faithful without having to accept metaphysical ideas of another age that we simply no longer believe? Or better yet, can faith and science support and inform each other?

What do you think?

We tend to think of silence as negative – the absence of language and talking and noise, either outwardly or in our own inner experience. The reality is that silence is not negative but positive – not the absence but the rich presence of integration in the mind and brain.

By definition, silence is beyond words. But precisely because it is beyond words, it is beyond the limitations and traps of the words of our personal story and our assumptions, fears, fantasies and hopes we carry from the past and project on to our future. It is the realm of freedom and love and creative integration.

What do you think?