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Category Archives: reading
Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
Upon recommendation I read The Alchemist by best-selling Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. A fable/parable novel, it has some great insights into why we don’t pursue our dreams. What bugs me about the book is its New Age-y themes. Although Christ appears … Continue reading
KINDLE FOR PC
Amazon’s digital reader Kindle is available FREE for PC and is amazing. I’m enjoying it very much. In a few years a physical book, like candles for light, will be an art object. I never would’ve believed it.
Briefly
I’m finding it hard to write these days, I don’t know why. But I continue to read. I worked as a chaplain in a Nursing Home for 4 years, and resolved to read as many of the great books as … Continue reading
Martin Luther King Jr. and Boris Pasternak
Completed the Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. which was disappointing in the sense that it was an in-house production, from which all the human drama of King’s personal life had been stripped away. There were Valentine greetings to Mrs. … Continue reading
Where your security lies
I’m having trouble focusing on things today. My friend’s death has stirred up a lot of difficult stuff. I’m reading Francis of Assisi by Leonardo Boff. It’s a heady book. But I’m finding it worth the wade. for example: How, … Continue reading
Posted in Liberation, reading, social issues
Tagged Francis of Assisi, Leonardo Boff, poverty
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Hollow cake
I tried my baking skills the other day. I had an orange-cranberry muffin mix, which called for an added cup of water. Flush with the success of earlier efforts, I added a protein booster whey powder, a couple eggs, and two … Continue reading
Posted in politics, reading, religion, social issues, Spiritual life
Tagged Camara, Modern Spiritual Masters series, Orbis Books, T.S. Eliot
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Beauty and the Tyrant
Why bother with Arenas? A comment follows this quotation. Quoting Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls (1993): “At the [Cuban] National Library in 1969 Lezama [Lima] gave a reading of perhaps one of the most extraordinary essays of Cuban literature under … Continue reading
In Spirit and Truth
I always get into what I’m reading. I’ve been wanting some biography, and happened on Before Night Falls through a book list. It’s a memoir of Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, freedom fighter and gay activist. Not the kind of book you’d … Continue reading
Active and passive moves in prayer
If you find these reflections useful to you, that’s my goal. I’d love to hear from you. Thank you for stopping by. Loss of pastoral care and counseling centers and training programs I first encountered Gerald May through his book Will … Continue reading
Posted in prayer, reading, religion, Spiritual classics, Spiritual life
Tagged dark night of he soul, G. May, joy, prayer
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A Spiritual Treasure
The following is from a spiritual treasure I became aware of while a pastor in rurban Virginia. We had folks who were committed AA members, who invited me to attend an AA meeting at our church because they needed another … Continue reading