Rolled in the trough of thick desire No oars, and no sea-anchor out To bring my bow into the pyre of sunset, suddenly chilling out To shadow over sky and sea, And the boat helpless in the trough; No oil to pour; no power in me To breast these waves, to shake...

“You shall not wrong an immigrant or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not afflict any widow or orphan. If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry; and My anger will...

  “God is nearer to us than our own soul.” (Julian of Norwich) For God loves us, the whole of us, body and soul, more than we do ourselves. God cares for the well-being of our whole being in a way our being cannot fathom, but only experience when we...

A recent study has found that religious people, in general, have less compassion than others who are not religious. NPR article This is odd, since it has already been shown that religious people tend to give more to charity than the non-religious. Study by Stanford What does this mean? First of...

Anselm said that to know we must first have firm faith. Honestly, we can’t figure out anything until we first stand on something. DesCartes experimented with what he could know if he doubted everything. However, he was an amateur cynic. That which he accepted, his own existence, was doubted by...