we are the leaders we've been waiting for...

When they hear that I am clergy, people often ask of me my religious affiliation. I often tell them, "Bapholic." No one denomination meets my various needs (where is the Baptist contemplative/monastic tradition?), and I'm certainly not about to affiliate with a church by, for and about feeble-minded old men soaked in patriarchy. So I give myself (and you, if you need it) the freedom to pick and choose.

I'd mentioned a couple of blogs ago that I'd write from time to time about how I nurture my faith. One of the emails to which I subscribe comes to me through "National Catholic Reporter" online. The title is "El Rio Debajo El Rio" -- The River Beneath the River -- and the author is Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD. Ms. Estes is a teller of stories, a keeper of the wisdom, a healer.

Her stories weave together the earthy with the mysterious, the prophetic ethical with the comic and the hysteric.

Find her work; you may be glad you did.... She has a quote (I believe) from her most recent blog: "We are the leaders we've been waiting for." See what I mean about "Bapholic?"

Pax, warren