Religion and spirituality should reinforce one another. Religion (literally “tying together again and again”) grows out of a mystical experience of the mystery and beauty of the universe, which is spirituality. Religion is a human effort to “tie up repeatedly” or rekindle this mystical experience … read more.

In this season of waiting or Advent we should take time to contemplate the miraculous all around us –– the simplicity in new-born infants, the beauty in nature, the order in the universe, the interconnected global human family. These cannot be explained by reason or … read more.