Jim Flowers (Page 68)

There are crises in our family right now…In my immediate family and among the families of my siblings. In the Koine Greek the word for crisis literally means ‘remaking’. Somehow in our culture we think, I think, that crises are avoidable; just follow the rules, be a good parent, studyRead More →

I used to be afraid of the dark. Each night as a child I would ceremoniously crack the bathroom door so that just a ribbon of light might give me my bearings lest I should wake in the dark. But now, I’ve made friends with the dark, its seductiveness, its mystery. At thisRead More →

This past Sunday afternoon I was asked to participate in the Religious Freedom walk sponsored by the Springhill avenue Temple. There were seven clergy there representing four world religions. Each of us were asked to speak briefly regarding our respective takes on the chosen theme: loving our neighbor. There were twoRead More →

Rain is pelting the windows of my office. I walked outside to get a sense of the storm, its character, and the temperature had already dropped some ten degrees…the tops of the water oaks frenzied by the torrents of wind a November cold front brings. I am forever amazed and enamoredRead More →

“In our end is our beginning” writes T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets…. perhaps a fine distillation of the truth at the heart of the universe…things end and things begin, a cosmic cycle of reiteration, of event and decision and circumstance, all moving to the music and rhythm of end and beginning…death andRead More →