Father Thomas Keating, who passed October 25 at age 95, was a Catholic Benedictine monk who reintroduced contemplative meditation to the Christian world. If that were his only lasting contribution to our world it would have been enough, but his legacy of interfaith dialogue that honored both commonalities and differences adds another layer of his…
BY HARV BISHOP My “rot in hell” list of people I need to forgive is finally shrinking. It has been a difficult journey of baby steps. First, I was able to release the desire for flesh-eating demons to chow down on the folks on my list. It was sufficient that they could quietly rot their…
By HARV BISHOP I recently wrote about my addiction to revenge porn: fantasizing about evening the score for wrongs and betrayals. It’s not pretty, but there are people I want to see fail in a major way. Nor do I think I’m alone or not being spiritual when I’m out of sorts toward some people….
BY HARV BISHOP I always intellectually believed that God was everywhere present. Whenever someone would remind me of that my wise-ass response was that the Creator had obviously forgotten some parts of New Jersey. But if I had been honest with myself I would have added myself along with New Jersey. I saw myself as…
