Zen Baptist

Just as there is a depth to the Bible which a literalist reading does not begin to comprehend, so it is with the Qur'an. The eye that se...

What does it mean to wrestle with the Angel? For certain, it means to not retreat into one’s secluded room of favored icons nailed to the wa...

What Jesus might have said: Sink or swim on your own, you buzzard vampires, drinking my blood and eating my flesh! Quit wearing my hand-me-d...

I bought this Bible in June, 1957 just prior to leaving for Parris Island boot camp. It went with me all through the Marines and is still wi...

As we consider the infinite number of worlds in the cosmos, each world governed by its inhabiting souls, we might wonder how we are doing ...

The spiritual world surrounds and gives birth to the material world. Trying to prove or disprove the existence of the spiritual from the rea...

Prayer is getting ourselves in tune. Becoming attuned requires some degree of dropping off or letting go, how much depending on the amount o...

Any thought form claiming to be the exclusive truth has not opened to the awareness that the cup does not change the nature of the water.

What's the big hangup about our Source assuming human form? We ourselves are continuously making the external internal and the internal ...

If we allow 0 to represent quality and 6 to represent quantity, we have 0 with a tail on it, and in this quantitative time, where quantity r...

If we hold together as a species, where are we headed? Some say safe in the arms of Jesus, but I don’t think Jesus wants any babies to hold ...

"God will not give us more than we can bear." While that is generally taken to mean that God will not load this donkey down with m...

They slammed me up beside the head with the Bible and its underlined bookmarked step-by-step guide to salvation and I thought, "No, thi...

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are m...

"Bear ye one another's burdens" -- Galatians 6:2 What the heck does that mean? On the physical plane it's simple enough. I...

Each religious group, political group, and religious-political group is firmly embedded in a set of images it holds as THE TRUTH. Each set o...

We have crucified and have been crucified enough. We put the cross away with our other holy relics. We put nothing on the wall for there are...

By violating their rules of mortgage, Adam and Eve went into deep and unpayable debt. Thrown out of their home, neither they nor their landl...

I am hesitant in writing this because it touches on the sacredness at the core of my being. It can be so easily misunderstood, ridiculed, re...

No matter how much some may respond with denunciation, anger, and fear, humans will continue to be religious, will continue opening to spiri...

Put your shoes off your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. -- Exodus 3: 5 At some point on our spiritual path, we must g...

As a zen baptist, the zen part of me likes the mythos of no mythos, which is an expression of open relationship with all that is, and the ba...

theism and a-theism are two peas in a pod dreaming dreams of disputation with exultant confirmation while the pod and mother plant swaying i...

At a night encampment on the way, the Lord encountered him and sought to kill him. So Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foresk...

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom -- Matthew 27:51 We continue to open on Earth today to a n...

As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. Proverbs 26:11 Now I know this is not the most appetizing text to bring to y...

This morning I was thinking of budo -- the way or path of the warrior. The essence of the warrior path is spirit. As Jesus said, have little...

"See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time . . . " --Ephesians 5: 15,16 To deem means to ...

Please turn in your Bibles to John 4:24. Let's read it aloud. "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spiri...

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? ...

Gate gate paragate parasamgate! Gone, gone beyond, totally gone beyond! This is the essence of the Heart Sutra and of the Easter message. Wh...

"Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with ...

Alright, all you Bible thumpers, settle down! You aren't going to like what I have to say today. Be that as it may, I press on (with onl...

Okay, I'm going to try to get us out of here early today. I know some of you want to drive up to Atlanta to hear the Jubilee Singers Of ...

Thank you for inviting me back. Open your Bibles to Matthew 5:14 . What does it say? The first sentence says "Ye are the light of the w...

Since I am in what is sometimes called the advancing years and sometimes the declining (no wonder we Geezers get confused), I am looking to...