Category: Spiritualism

My uncle Jack Kidd was the finest literary scholar I’ve ever known–which is saying something. In my career teaching college English, I bumped into quite a few good lit scholars. But to Jack, whose mind was both encyclopedic and analytic, literature, history and the thought of a given era–the philosophy and theology–were all inextricably interwoven…

It’s good for us every now and then to get out into the countryside on a cloudless night, far enough from a city that you can actually see the stars, and just look up at them. Consider how many thousands upon thousands of stars there must be. Consider how vast space must be to hold…

As I was growing up, I had a great-uncle named Bob Meador. Bob did a little farming and a little carpentry. He wore blue denim overalls six days a week, but on Sunday he wore clean white overalls. He had no vehicle, so I suppose someone always gave him a ride to the country church…

During my 71 years of life, I have always been aware of God’s presence. I have never been comfortable in a church setting, and I have never believed that the religion I was born into was any more precious to God than someone else’s religion. Those who serve their maker, whatever they call that maker,…