Author: Khalila RedBird
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On Grace
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 Grace. It’s one of those words beloved by Christians, but one I haven’t heard much in other contexts. Maybe it is spoken of, but under other names. I would like to unravel the meaning here, in accessible language across the barriers of religious context. To start, I’ll narrow…
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On prayerbooks …
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 Reflections and memories Sometime in my 6-to-8-years-old timeframe, or at most a year later, I was drawn in envy to the missals and other holy books carried by some other girls of my acquaintance — possibly the same ones who had those mysterious (and forbidden to me)…
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Fly Free
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 This is in my chaplain’s prayerbook for attending end-of-life situations. I wrote it for that long, quiet vigil sitting with the dying, when communication with this world appears to have ceased yet life remains. Sometimes the dying seem to need permission to let go. Sometimes the family present needs to…
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Spiritual Engineering
I see my spirituality as the relationships between myself and everything else that exists. As an engineer, I seek and craft tools for myself and others to facilitate maintaining and repairing those relationships. A collection of my essays on chaplaincy as a Quaker and Pagan. Experiences The Igbomen and the Witch: Reflections on Pagan Chaplaincy…
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Sources that had an impact
Sarah Louise Arnold. The Way of Understanding. New York: Girl Scouts of the United States of America, 1934. Lincoln Kinnear Barnett. The Universe and Dr. Einstein. New York: The New American Library of World Literature, Inc., 1960. J.W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: the Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning. San Francisco: Harper…
