Thoughts Along The Way - The Durango Herald

Revisiting the Garden of Eden

Listening to a TED talk last year, I jotted down the following quote from the speaker whose name is now lost to me: “Our imagination has become an ecological force.” Trying to loc...

DATE: Jul 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

The structure that lets us grow

The royal wedding is finally old news. All the extravagance of the ceremony and the sermon by the black bishop from the United States – these have, at long last, disappeared from the news fe...

DATE: Jun 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

What became of the virtue of civility?

Civil discourse these days is less and less civil. This is not news. For those of us who are “of an age,” we have something with which to compare how our society is currently functioning. We...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

At the U.N., shame in the U.S.

The whole world was there! Well, maybe not the whole world numerically, and maybe not the whole world even representationally, but it felt like the whole world was there. Last month, I had ...

DATE: Apr 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Hope will rise when we quiet our minds

You might be surprised to learn that Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is not an optimist. Neither is his great friend and conversation partner, His Holiness the Dalai...

DATE: Mar 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Does dogma sometimes silence you? Me too

In the light of Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo, and the rising movement of women who are speaking the truth of their lives, what can the Bible, a 2,000-year-old document, possibly have to say ...

DATE: Feb 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

A place of eternal torment? Never

I recently had a conversation with a woman that broke my heart. Let’s call her Ann. Ann is intelligent, inquisitive, and has a syndrome that leaves it difficult to tell by her behavior what ...

DATE: Jan 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Being decisive has its drawbacks

Recently a friend sent me a link to an episode of John Lienhard’s radio program “Engines of Our Ingenuity” on which he addressed the topic of decisiveness. While Lienhard is an engineer, his...

DATE: Dec 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Change our story, change the world

I doubt that there are many folks who wouldn’t agree that our world could benefit from some change. Not everyone would agree, however, what that change should look like. As a soci...

DATE: Nov 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Into the still of night

I pulled into the parking lot and turned off the engine. It wasn’t that much earlier than I usually arrive at church on Sunday mornings, but I was struck by how it was still night. ...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

To every thing, a season?

There are things in this world that best ought not be hurried. Many of them lie within the purview of women – birth, the rising of bread, a holy death among them. Of course, any o...

DATE: Aug 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

We live by story, choose how we live

Not every religion has a sacred text. Among those that do, I’ve been pondering what their role might be in our 21st century world – a world of pluralism, science and technology and rapid glo...

DATE: Jul 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way