Adventures in Spell Check

May 18, 2009

I was doing some writing today and when I used the term unchurched in my piece, Spell Check underlined it in red.  I thought I knew how to spell that word so I clicked to find how Spell Check thought I should spell it.  Their suggestion was uncharted.  Uncharted … interesting.

Our spiritual lives are journeys and I know that when I was unchurched I felt like I was in uncharted waters.  Who could I talk to who knew anything about the spiritual path?

I know, I know – many of us in churches feel like we can’t talk to anybody there about our spiritual journeys.  But the way is charted – voices of the past and present speak of their experience and, believe me, the history of Christian experience is a rich one.  Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, and John of the Cross are just a few of the writers and teachers who provide us with tools to chart our spiritual way.   Just look them up on Wikipedia.

I get frustrated when folks I know leave the Christian path to explore Buddhism or other paths saying that there is not meditation in Christianity – haven’t they heard of Father Thomas Keating?