Confession: Whenever someone says, “I’m spiritual but not religious,” I bite my tongue. Because if I didn’t bite my tongue, I might say something uncharitable, like, “Really? I’m fairly certain that, without religion, you wouldn’t have the foggiest idea what spirituality is.” Or, “Tell me, please, what is spirituality, exactly? Define it in a way …
Category: Holding Hands
Give Me Thine Hand
Take a look at the photograph I’m using in the masthead of this blog. I chose an image of people holding hands not simply because it is a nice metaphor for “Staying Connected.” I chose it because hand-holding is a quintessentially Wesleyan metaphor, calling to mind a phrase, taken from 2 Kings 10:15, that John Wesley …