Volume 1 Number 30 |
The Editor's Desk: | August 1 - August 7, 2010 |
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Our mission is to present spiritual responses to some of the greatest challenges that life has to offer: events like death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, serious accident or illness, crises of identity, recovery from addiction, loss of job or career, retirement, and other life-altering events. |
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Butch Hovis invites the reader to ponder both the writings of Saint John of the Cross, Saint Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, the sketch of Saint John of the Cross, and Dali’s version of that sketch as a way of deepening one’s experience of love. [Continue]
Butch Hovis examines a minor work of Saint John of the Cross, “Counsels to a Religious on How to Reach Perfection.” In so doing, he invites us to look outside our own spiritual box to profit from both the experience of St. John as well as many, many persons through the centuries who have found strength in what has often been called the [Continue]
Butch Hovis reflects on the broader aspects of this Memorial Day Weekend and invites us to look beyond those whom we may be honoring by habit to a much vaster array of persons caught up in even more challenging threats than the loss of flesh and blood. [Continue]
Do you remember that 60’s song “I’ve got that joy, joy, joy, joy, down in my heart! Where? Down in my heart. Yes, down in my heart!” One organist had to play an hour of Bach to get it out of his mind. Butch Hovis invites you to consider the joy in your heart, perhaps on a deeper level, and how it is or is not the focus and center of your [Continue]
“Easy does it” is a recovery slogan. A strange statement since recovery folks also warn against an “easier softer way”! So what’s a person to do in reading some of the more chilling ascetical writings of St. John of the Cross as we did about “imperfections”? Butch Hovis picks up the theme of LOVE as a way of coming to terms with the [Continue]
Butch Hovis picks up on his theme of mindfulness meditation, the teachings of St. John of the Cross, and just plain daily life experience. [Continue]
An invitation from Butch Hovis to reflect on one day, twenty-four hours of living. [Continue]
What? Why? Who am I ? Butch Hovis examines how mystical writers such as John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, and the Buddha address what may be the root of our true life. [Continue]
Spring time when all hearts turn to love, or what?. Butch Hovis invites you to take a moment to consider your love life. Thanks to spiritual and mystical writers such St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, and the Buddha there is a chance for us to discover how we are doing. [Continue]
Have you ever heard the question: “What‘s the point?” In this installment of Butch Hovis’ reflections on spirituality and mysticism, he moves from St. John of the Cross‘ discussion of “imperfections” to meet the challenge of “THE point.” [Continue]
