The Poetics of Faith, or, Why Centering Prayer is a Method and Not a Technique

Recently on social I media I offered this observation:

My online friend James Ishmael Ford, author of books like Introduction to Zen Koans and Zen Master Who?, reposted it to his timeline, dutifully crediting me as the source.

I was surprised — and a bit bemused — by the response.

James is a retired UU minister and a Zen priest (he also has a wonderful blo…