Let me tell you about a conversation I keep having. Maybe you’ve had it too.
Someone—usually in their twenties or thirties, sometimes older—pulls me aside after a talk or sends me an email. “I can’t do the God-stuff anymore,” they say. “I’m done with religion. But...” and here’s where it gets interesting, “...I can’t shake the feeling that something matters. That there’s more going on. That beauty and justice and love aren’t just, you know, evolutionary accidents...” (from Tripp Fuller)
For many of us, the old view of God is dying. That male god, living out beyond the clouds somewhere, moody, angry, keeping track of our sins, and liable to punish at will. A god who wants to be praised and begged.
And related to that, the idea that religion is mostly about getting your beliefs right so you can go to heaven when you die, is a tough pill to swallow. And the reduction of spirituality to either blind dogmatism or political expediency is, frankly, disgusting to many.
This view of God and religion is dying, yes. But what is being born to take its place?

Introduction
The Whisper Within
Listen Closely
Turning to God
Learning God’s Name
Moses and the Holy One
Meeting God in Love
Speaking of God
Holy & Gracious Mystery
God is Love
Questions about God
What is God Like?
Questions of Faith
A Little Humility
The False God of Certainty
How We Read Scripture
Humility, Indeed
The Presence of Jesus
Jesus and His Friends and Associates
The Pastoral Ministry of Jesus
Jesus at Prayer
Jesus as a Person of Prayer
Intimate Presence
Grace, Amazing Grace
The Offer of Grace
Our Servant Leader
Jesus as Our Server
Jesus as Our Server at the Eucharist
An ecumenical view of Eucharisrt
Jesus’ Mission
To Announce the Good News
What the Gospels Say
The Good News: Lavish Love
How Much God Loves Us
What God’s Lavish Love Means
The Cross
Faith That Does Justice
Jesus' Death & Resurrection
Atonement
Theories of Expiation or Atonement
The Paschal Mystery & Atonement
Transformed by the Paschal Mystery
Gospel Poverty
Living with Gospel Poverty
Matthew: A Study in Gospel Poverty
Holy Women
Cultivating Hope
A World Seeking Hope
Speaking of Jesus with Honesty
A Remarkable Experience
Speaking with God
The Nature of Prayer
Praying with Hope
A New Vocabulary for Prayer
Preparing Our Hearts
Renewing Our Vocabulary for Prayer
Deeper Prayer with the Holy One
Living as Mystic
What Is a Mystic?
How We Become Mystics
Being People of the Table
A Pilgrim's Journey
Speaking from the Heart
Presence, Holy Presence
A Pilgrim at Prayer
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