Laughter: Carbonated Grace

My mother was widowed at fifty-five.  Going back to business school she ended up teaching there for ten years.  She lived in Houston, Texas and when she retired at sixty-five she was finding th...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/06/05/the-most-difficult-challenge/

Pentecost is the Birthday of the Church. Here are some Scriptures that describe our call to be the People of God. John 10:27 Jesus says: “My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me....

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/05/19/pentecost-the-beginning-but-not-the-end/

Recently in a class someone questioned the Ascension, which to me questions the Resurrection. I remembered a brilliant Scripture professor priest who was one of the consultants on Scripture at Va...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/05/17/faith-and-experience/

Jim Palmer was a fundamentalist evangelical preacher with a huge congregation.  He now works to free Christians from toxic religion.  My journey on a tiny scale has been similar.  Though I hav...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/05/10/a-source-for-those-disillusion-with-religions/

I’m an idealist. We imagine better possibilities. This life and everyone and everything are unfinished, so imperfect. Accepting this reality is hard for idealists. We have to settle for inching...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/05/08/we-and-our-world-are-unfinished/

Good morning all of God’s tenderly loved children!  And that’s all of us.  Good old Paul is still trying to shape us up in Romans. He not only says no quarreling, but to make no provision f...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/04/19/addictions/

Richard Rohr describes how it’s possible to experience resurrection before we die:  We don’t need to wait for death to experience resurrection. We can begin resurrection today by living conn...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/resurrection-through-connection/

Brian McLaren (One of Richard Rohr’s CAC) invites us to an imaginative experience of the painful reality of scapegoating that occurred on Good Friday:  Let’s imagine ourselves with the disci...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/we-dont-know-what-we-are-doing/

Father Richard Rohr writes about encountering the Risen Christ in our ordinariness and woundedness. I’ve noticed in the Gospels that even after two appearances of the Risen Christ, the apostles...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/03/24/ordinary-lives-transformed/

Richard Rohr identifies mysticism as a way of knowing accessible to all:  While most Christians consider themselves disciples of Jesus and try to follow his teachings, a smaller number move towa...

https://carbonatedgrace.wordpress.com/2024/03/19/sidewalk-spirituality/