summer break
The wisdom of breaks. "People who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines." Fannie Lou Hamer and the fourth of July. Retreat culture of the people, by the people, and for the people of Palm Beach County.
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good war: social prayer & paradise
We're all familiar with social media, but what about social prayer? Why aren't we familiar with that? Social prayer was a major discovery of the civil rights movement, “the sword that heals.” It’s what we need today. Plus, people working on paradise: heaven on earth. We need that too.
good war: social prayer
A conference about loving god: the American Academy of Religion, Southeast Region annual conference, where I presented on social prayer. Plus, what's wrong with nonviolence?
good war: church
Black History Month continues. How the black church got involved in good war. Injustice is a spiritual problem. The most effective method for overcoming injustice is a spiritual solution.
good war: women
Black History Month. The centrality of black women to the Montgomery bus boycott. It would not have happened without them. Women made the modern civil rights movement in the 1950s by starting that good war. Women will remake the next civil rights movement in the 2020s.
good war: intro
The Montgomery action was the first spiritual campaign of the civil rights movement. That’s what made it revolutionary. It was the beginning of a good war that surprised almost everyone. And it’s exactly what we need now.
Would Jesus celebrate Christmas?
Christmas in January? Remembering Jesus of Nazareth. Is religion private and personal or public and communal? “If you had control of the churches in a country, on what aims would you concentrate their forces?”
The human nature of empire
Living in the land of love versus the wasteland. Why is it so difficult? The three toxins of human nature. Antidotes to the toxins: the four fruits. Dramatic conversion story from Wild Goose 2025: From Guns to Trees.
Cracks in the facade of empire?
Spiritual news from the Empire State. I love Allah? I love socialism? Exvangelicals and Wild Goose. New life in the cracks.
Spiritual innovation & Goose #4
Riding the phase of the moon. Spiritual innovation around the world and in my own backyard. Wild Goose Festival #4: 400 sessions in 3 and a half days. The commonwealth of god.
Slow moon, Wild Goose Fest #3
Slow moon. Paying attention. Becoming what we behold. Wild Goose Festival #3.
Wild Goose Festival 2025 #2
On NOT preaching with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other. A review of the pre-festival day at Wild Goose 2025.
Wild Goose Festival 2025 #1
A sample schedule from the Wild Goose Festival 2025, including indigenous wisdom, African-American spirituals, atheists, lovers of god, beer & hymns, and french toast.
Is it a new moon if you can't see it?
A moonlit walk with Einstein, lunar phases in wisdom traditions, moonsighting in Islam, and the face of god.