-
Yearly thoughts From The Court Fool!
Exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that we re-introduce the idea of having a court jester, a bumbling fool in every organization, church, and family, who regularly,
https://ronrolheiser.com/yearly-thoughts-from-the-court-fool/
-
The Embrace Of Good Friday
There are different kinds of loneliness, just as there are different visions of intimacy. We ache in many places, just as we dream various dreams of consummation. I remember as
-
Waiting for a Wildflower
How do we reach the unchurched? What should we be doing in light of the fact that church attendance, commitment to the church, and simple interest in the church as
-
The Restless Heart
Every so often a book comes along that deeply touches the romantic imagination. Twenty-five years ago, Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull did this. Now, in North America at least, we
-
The New Legalism – The Tyranny Of Programs
One of our perennial struggles as a church is with legalism. Invariably we set up certain hoops which we believe must be jumped through if one is to make proper
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-new-legalism-the-tyranny-of-programs/
-
Thinking Small
A year ago, I was at a religious education conference which had as its keynote speaker Maya Angelou, a black woman of considerable talent and remarkable graciousness. Among the many
-
Tenderness And Politics
Few things are as singularly urgent as is the need to bring about a better marriage, between justice and contemplation. The tension that exists between them expresses itself in a
-
Rooted In Honesty
You are as sick as your sickest secret! That’s a phrase some Alcoholic Anonymous groups use to challenge people to understand what, at its roots, sobriety really is. Drunkenness, of
-
Broken and Distributed
Ten years ago, while I was doing graduate studies in Belgium and still on faculty at a theology college back home, I received a letter from one of the students
-
The Restless Spirit
In the preface to Elizabeth O’Connor’s book, Search for Silence, N. Gordon Cosby writes: “The one journey that ultimately matters is the journey into the place of stillness deep within