All religions have their foundations laid in the principal of “God is Love.” Yet all religions have within them the seeds of violence and destruction. Great deeds have been done in the name of God just as great apostasy has been committed in that same name. This should not surprise us. Our lives and our societies are a reflection of what is already ( Read more... )

The Hit Man and Socrates sat on opposite sides of the conference table eyeing the last old fashioned donut. If it came down to a battle of wills and wits my money would be on the Hit Man who was not above cheating or kicking Socrates in the nads ( Read more... )

To long a suffering makes a stone of the heart.

~W.B. Yeats.

I shivered in the early afternoon spring breeze. I was stripped naked and standing in the middle of a pool of ice cold water. I felt like I was turning blue although Joanne assured me I was exaggerating.

“I think ice is forming on my nipples,” I said through chattering teeth, “I am ( Read more... )

God is the all consuming passion of my life. But given a choice in this life I would rather be an ethical man than a spiritual man. The spirit of religion would be better served by people who are more concerned with justice than theology. I am not certain that you can be spiritual if you don’t turn your heart towards the ethical.

~Br. Ezra P. ( Read more... )

Ezra had driven his ’64 Falcon all night and would have continued on had his bleary eyes not become heavy. I-80 had transformed into a concrete ribbon of fluidity, the pavement moving up and down, up and down like a narrow wave. He was no longer focusing and it was only by sheer luck or angelic intervention that he did not ditch his car.  He was ( Read more... )

Brother Ezra heard the angelic being calling to him. She was somewhere out “there” just beyond the normal periphery of his consciousness. Even though he didn’t hear an actual voice he knew she was there waiting for them in their special place as she had been ever since he was a small boy when she first came to him and told him of his mission.

Maybe ( Read more... )