From A Distance   Sometimes we have to ask people to leave our programs due to bad behavior.  Over the years we have come to learn that even in these situations, there is room for input into their lives as they have to move on.  In these moments, we tell [...]

The Flight of the Bumble Bee Ice Cream   Upon entering Cornerstone’s dining room at Dinner Guest time on Saturday, one is immediately greeted by the generally noisy din of a few hundred people as they join together for the neighborhood weekly afternoon meal.  Laughter and conversation ebbs and flows, loud, then subsiding, then [...]

Joyce Paskewich Kendrick, a member of JPUSA for some years back in the ’90s (“I still think I’m a JPUSA today!”), sent along a personal reflection: ‘I was a heroin addict in my 20s. I shot up as many times as I could a day. They left terrible track marks [...]

Whether you understand or not, God loves you, is present to you, lives in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and light which are like nothing you ever found in books or sermons…. If you dare to penetrate your own silence…and risk the sharing of that [...]

I wrote this recently in response to a friend’s self-confident writings about why he had left the Christian faith behind. It was one of many back and forth communications we have had. It is not a perfect argument for God, or some well-crafted Atheist-busting syllogisms. It is, I suspect, more [...]

This will likely have a small audience. I admit I laughed.

Get a Life Anna Quindlen So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. Get a real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you’d care so very much about those things if you blew an [...]

Jesus says: “Blessed are the poor, the gentle, those who mourn, those who hunger  and thirst for uprightness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness” (Matthew 5:3-10). These words offer us a self-portrait of Jesus.  Jesus is the Blessed [...]