Pax Christi South

Alaska was an amazing trip. Often our tour guides would stop and gather wild flowers for us to examine. Many of the flowers and plants had medicinal qualities and were used by the native peoples for healing. Also, when I boarded the ship for the cruise, my left knee was killing me. I had three [...]

At the beginning of the first book of Isaiah, Isaiah stands in awe and wonder before the glory of God. He saw God’s garment filling the temple. Seraphim with six pairs of wings surrounded God. “Holy, holy, holy, holy is the Creator. All the earth is filled with God’s glory (doxa)!” Humbled, Isaiah is profoundly [...]

Amos is one of my favorite prophets. When Amos prophesies at the king’s shrine, the king tells him to get lost. Amos does not back down. He continues to speak. In effect, he tells the king to stick it in his ear. In today’s reading, Amos address the injustices done to the poor. He denounces [...]

[Last night—June 29, 2007—I led the meditation at the healing service at Good shepherd Church in Hayesville, NC where I am engaged in healing ministry. I began the Soaking Prayer Service by reading from Daniel 3 adapted to reflect glaciers and Alaskan wildlife.} Quaker Thomas R. Kelly wrote: Do we live in the steady peace [...]

We had a wonderful trip to the Yukon and Alaska. This picture is just one of many magnificent scenes. Enjoy reflected grandeur. The Creator is alive and well in Alaska. Be sure to click on the picture for a full screen view. We also visited the Alaska native Heritage Center. I really like their statement [...]

In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. Then Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”  Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/opinion/27kristof.html?ref=opinion This is a link to an insightful editorial by Kristof in the New York Times on Sister Margaret. Thomas Merton, who died over forty years ago, is right on target with his assessment of the church today: It is true that the Lord in the Gospel speaks of His faithful as “sheep,” but that [...]

Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying: “I pray not only for these, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may [...]

May 15 marked the sixty-second anniversary of the Nakba—the Day of Disaster for the Palestinians. Nakba coincides with Israel’s Independence Day. Both sides are still fighting over land. It is not about religion or racism. The conflict is over real estate. The present boundaries came to be over time. After Jewish Independence and the Nakba [...]

We recently attended the ground breaking for the new Monastic Heritage Center (MHC) at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, GA. It was a great event and we had the opportunity to visit with some of our monk friends there. Once you enter the long magnolia-lined drive, you know you [...]