What happens when psychedelics make you see God This article in MSN.com which appeared in the Fall 2020, Mysteries issue of Popular Science, reviews how: Scientists in the psychiatry department of Johns Hopkins University—are part of the burgeoning field of psychedelic studies. Recently invigorated by a more permissive regulatory environment, the sector investigates if, how,Continue reading “What happens when psychedelics make you see God”
Category Archives: Uncategorized
The Wounded, Wounding God
One of my life-albums is “The Lover and the Beloved”, by John Michael Talbot. In this album, JMT takes devotional writings from some of the great spiritual writers of church history, adapts them to song, and then sings them, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar. So…a little bit different than what the Music-Industrial Complex, inContinue reading “The Wounded, Wounding God”
What is the plan for the Pandemic?
What is the plan for the Pandemic? Are you tired of the Pandemic? Are you through with the Pandemic? Well the Pandemic is not “through” with you. This latest report warns: US Covid-19 cases will begin to rapidly accelerate in a week as the country topped 60,000 new infections Tuesday — triple what the dailyContinue reading “What is the plan for the Pandemic?”
Food for Thought Part 2: When Invasive Species Become the Meal
Food for Thought Part 2: When Invasive Species Become the Meal The red lionfish in its home hunting grounds of the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean was just a fish among fish, a known enemy that the smarter, smaller creatures avoided, and food itself for larger predators. But by 1985, one was recognized offContinue reading “Food for Thought Part 2: When Invasive Species Become the Meal”
Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees Here is an article from Nautilus reprinted in Getpocket by Brandon Keim. Brandon Keim is a freelance nature and science journalist. He is the author of “The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World” and “Meet the Neighbors” from W.W. Norton & Company, about what it meansContinue reading “Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees”
Damaris: From Conquest to Balance
From Conquest to Balance By Damaris Zehner The power people have developed as a result of the Industrial Revolution has changed our relationship to nature. We’ve freed ourselves from the limitations that nature imposes, or so it seems. We can be warm when it’s cold, dry when it’s wet, and well fed even in timesContinue reading “Damaris: From Conquest to Balance”
Review of “Love and Quasars: An Astrophysicist Reconciles Faith and Science” by Paul Wallace, Part 11.
Review of “Love and Quasars: An Astrophysicist Reconciles Faith and Science” by Paul Wallace, Part 11. The final Chapter 13 is entitled, Why I Came Back: Love Embraces the Cosmos. As he noted in earlier chapters, despite the conservative evangelical background he was raised in, by the time he left home for college, Wallace’s childhoodContinue reading “Review of “Love and Quasars: An Astrophysicist Reconciles Faith and Science” by Paul Wallace, Part 11.”
New Year’s Brunch, December 28 2019
Hello, friends, and welcome to the weekend. Ready for a New Year’s Brunch? I actually don’t have any items about New Years in the New Year’s Brunch. I just like saying New Year’s Brunch. It makes me feel sophisticated and cosmopolitan. Don’t judge. But it is still holiday time, so this week’s entries are allContinue reading “New Year’s Brunch, December 28 2019”
Christmas and the Empty Chair
Dear imonk friends. On Tuesday night’s Christmas Eve Service I shared some thoughts on what Christmas means to me after a year of great loss and pain. I am posting them here in hopes it may help someone. 2019 has been the worst year of my life. I won’t go into details, but justContinue reading “Christmas and the Empty Chair”
Saturday Brunch, November 23, 2019
Hello, friends, and welcome to the weekend. Ready for some brunch? A Mexican church claims it has “accidentally” erected the largest baby Jesus statue in the world. “There is a space of between 26 feet between the ceiling and the floor and I ordered a statue measuring 21 feet, but I never intended to make itContinue reading “Saturday Brunch, November 23, 2019”