We speak of spirits and ghosts when we encounter the sort of meaning that only another person can share with us, yet we cannot locate that person in our world.

What place does your body have in your spiritual life?

If the church is a field hospital, I have known a place within the church where the wounded have flocked for many decades. I am speaking, of course, of Howard Gray.

Is there something in my life that I need to take time to ponder, time to understand?

We often imagine our own deaths, though typically what we picture is our funeral.

Teaching in prison, and a racially charged encounter, amplified my consciousness of race in religious imagery.