You may have difficulty explaining what you understand happiness to be, but you feel that deep in your heart you know what it is. Unhappiness often comes from the frustration of our elemental drives – the acquisitive drive, the drive for status, the sex drive, the drive to understand and to create and to control. […] Read more
Stories by Rev. J. A. Davidson
MEDITATION
The Lord’s Supper The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper – the Eucharist, the Mass, the Holy Communion: it has many names – has been from New Testament times the primary celebration in Christian faith. Before the Gospels were written, before Paul and the others wrote their letters, before the church took institutional form, bread and […] Read more
Judging others
“Judge not, that you be not judged.” This saying of Jesus has become a popular proverb, useful for the putting down of anyone who criticizes anything or any person, validly or otherwise. And that is not necessarily a misrepresentation of what Jesus had in mind. But beneath the simplicity of the saying there are significant […] Read more