Father Richard Speaks


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Fr. Richard Rohr on Mysticism Here’s a link to a great post on Christian Mysticism Share via: Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn More
The Passion does not reveal a God who forces, but a God who waits—inviting response, not demanding it. The Passion reveals a Godwho waits for our response. That is not how we expect God to act. We expect power.Intervention.Resolution. We expect God to act in ways that remove uncertainty and bring clarity on our terms….
I recently finished “The Purpose of Power” by Alicia Garza about building and executing justice movments and I thought this was a good checklist of what a movement should be/do: Share via: Facebook X (Twitter) LinkedIn More
We spend much of life in between—between certainty and clarity, endings and beginnings. What if those spaces are not empty, but sacred? Liminal space for rent.Inquire within. It sounds like a joke. But most of us are already living there. Between what wasand what is not yet. Between certaintyand clarity. Between the life we knewand…
Most of us spend our lives trying to prove we exist. We fill calendars.Build identities.Accumulate accomplishments.Curate images.Defend opinions.Chase recognition. And beneath all of it lives a quieter ache: Do I matter?Am I real?Am I loved? The mystics answer these questions differently than the modern world. They begin not with the self, but with God. God…