Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Religion

  • When God Is the Godfather

    Image by Petikadlec on Pixabay And you’re already in debt… One beautiful day, I was headed for the Post Office on my scooter, when a huge Voice from all around stopped me in my tracks. I swear it sounded like the Voice of God, all silky-like. “Reverend Sparky. How you doing?” No one else seemed to hear…

  • For the Church Ladies Who Always Bring a Covered Dish

    Photo by Gor Davtyan on Unsplash reluctant poetry What outrageous ecstasyis locked behind those silent lips? Still hands don’t clap or lift,but merely tremble in the Presence,weary from the work. Straight-backed supplicants,while rapt, do not cry out;and sometimes they may sing or smilebut do not keen or shout. And is this truly worship,bound so quiet and…

  • A Tiny Religion

    Photo by Samuel Austin on Unsplash It’s not easy. But it’s simple. I have to laugh at the way people complicate religion. It’s just as funny as the way I get all confused when I reorganize stuff: “Well, if I put that in there, then where will this go? And if I move these things, they’ll just…

  • Named After God

    Photo by Becca Tapert on Unsplash reluctant poetry Tell me now, again, what God’s name is: When prayer wields words like fiery phallic swords; When we must worship towers of bishops,casting out heretics, burning witches; When Eve our mother bears the blame for sin and pain,though bearing all in birth, and bearing all to Adam,just a mudman…

  • My Secret Names for G*D

    Photograph by Emily Morter on Unsplash. We all have questions. There are probably as many ways of prayer as there are people. Most religious traditions offer forms and formalities to be followed, and most have preferred languages and liturgies. But nearly all serious theologies or philosophies admit human words simply cannot define the Divine. Therefore,…

  • Prophet Motives

    It’s not always about the money. Gelt. Boodle. Scratch. Sugar. Loot. Photo by Dmitry Moraine on Unsplash A friend and I were talking recently about the urgent necessity of developing alternative energy sources when the friend said, matter-of-factly, “Of course, people have to be incentivized to do that development…” We’ve all heard this mantra a hundred times.…

  • How I’m Making My Own Rules

    Nine of them. And you can, too. Chalk lines show where home is. Image by Mark Duffel on Unsplash People often like to say they hate rules: they believe rules are made to be broken; rules are for fools and sheeple and chumps. At their best, those rule-breakers are wildly creative and productive, bringing fresh thinking to…