Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.