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Encounters with the Jewish Jesus

April 2, 2015 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald 6 Comments

Back in 1986, I was browsing my university bookstore when someone yelled, “How dare you wear that?!” Before I turned around, I glanced down to make sure my pants matched my shirt. What could I be wearing that was so offensive? Was this hostility even directed at me? The scowling woman was dressed in a […]

Filed Under: Spirit, ULE

Return to the scene of our baptism

April 2, 2015 by Watt Childress 3 Comments

A little oasis lives in the city of man,
a place insiders drink to divinity.
Their libations skim the surface bare —
lauding scapegoats, mocking strangers.

Filed Under: Poetry, Spirit, ULE

Jesus

April 2, 2015 by Erin Hofseth 5 Comments

Barefoot, transient, swaddled in rags, born in a manger. Friend to the marginalized, the lepers, the homeless. The sick, the sad, and the forgotten. Radical Revolutionary. Peaceful leader. Turn the other cheek, Give the coat off your back. Wash the dirty feet of neighbor, stranger, and friend. Deliverer of hope. Lover of souls. Healer. Without […]

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Myths and misunderstandings

April 1, 2015 by Tricia Gates Brown 3 Comments

A writer friend told me I was passed over for a recent book-signing because the organizer finds my book title “scary.” This wasn’t the first time I learned of such a reaction to Jesus Loves Women: A Memoir of Body and Spirit.[Read More]

Filed Under: Books, Featured Writing, Spirit, ULE

In Search of Sacred Love: A Review of “Jesus Loves Women” by Tricia Gates Brown

April 1, 2015 by Margaret Hammitt-McDonald 3 Comments

With an honesty that’s redemptive rather than brutal, Ms. Brown recounts how she “awakened to the goodness of being a sensual, sexual creature…”, a painful journey for which most of us growing up in the United States—inheritors of the Puritan worldview as we are—receive little support. [Read More]

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What Jesus smells like

April 1, 2015 by T H Savaht 6 Comments

Everything he ever laid a blue-veined compassionate hand on even the one with the spear that touched Him through a shaft of wood and a head of metal many of us are built like that dense and piercing killing that we’ve only just begun to love Jesus smelled like that like unrequited love and passion […]

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Forgiveness and Light

March 31, 2015 by Lorraine Ortiz 2 Comments

It is the first time I’ve driven up the long driveway leading to the monastery. For years I’ve imagined visiting, but life’s busyness never allowed the time. Now I am desperate for quiet. The desire to escape is strong—much like my childhood desire for invisibility to avoid my father’s bullying. With a lull in life’s […]

Filed Under: Spirit, ULE

Hollywood Jesus

March 30, 2015 by Rick Bonn 3 Comments

I saw Jesus in Hollywood many times over the course of my decade working there. And most of them were surprises. And mysteries. For me, Jesus is like a puzzle I’ve been assembling since youth. I know I don’t have the whole picture yet, but the few pieces that have come together thrill me. Did […]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Images, Movies, Spirit, ULE

Waddling toward Jerusalem

March 22, 2015 by Watt Childress 2 Comments

There are two ways of viewing the idea of sacrifice in human culture. One is a selfless gift or a waiver of gratification. The other involves a taking of life for personal gain. [Read More]

Filed Under: Nature, Spirit, ULE

Speech to Neah-Kah-Nie High School National Honors Society: Service

January 18, 2015 by Michael Simpson 1 Comment

What I love most is that you don’t have to be a hero to serve. No matter what little you do of it. It still helps whether it be a grandiose or subtle gesture. But, you’re either serving or not. [Read More]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Writing, Politics, Spirit Tagged With: honors, service, speech

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  • Watt Childress April 28, 2025 at 11:48 am on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltAlso, you inspired me to insert a sentence crediting Hoyt Axton with the song's genesis. Many thanks!
  • Watt Childress April 27, 2025 at 10:55 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltThank you kindly Jim for reading this and commenting. I enjoyed your review of "Sun House" by David James Duncan,
  • Jim Stewart April 27, 2025 at 8:26 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltNice! Hoyt Axton wrote the Jeremiah song and sang it with great gusto. Life wanders on and I'm still glad
  • Watt Childress April 26, 2025 at 3:51 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltDuring spring I think of you, and all the May Pole celebrations you've organized over the years. So grateful for
  • Watt Childress April 26, 2025 at 3:18 pm on Uncle Zech’s Amphibious GestaltIn my dreams I sing to the multitudes, with a voice as clear and sweet and churchy as Lou Reed.
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