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July 2014

July 30, 2014

Prayer for the Senses, a Book Review of A Bead and A Prayer by Kristen Vincent

  I sit with people in a practice we call spiritual direction, in which a...

July 18, 2014

The Accompanist

My main identity as a teenager was that of an accompanist. In church and at...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Bread for the Journey

I have returned from a splendid journey to London and Iona, and now my actual...

June 13, 2014

Why I Do Pray and Read the Bible–Much! A Response to Ellen Painter Dollar

Ellen Painter Dollar is one of my favorite colleagues in the Patheos family of writers....

March 2014

March 22, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Making Joyful Noise–Lent III

I am so blessed to have been raised in a family, a faith tradition and...

March 15, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces: Lent II-Walking a Labyrinth

I am revisiting places where I have experienced Grace as a Lenten practice this year,...

October 2013

October 05, 2013

A Sunday Morning Prayer for Preachers

After I preached last Sunday, I was freshly aware of how much I needed to...

September 2013

September 03, 2013

How the Light Gets In

My "summer" ended with my reading the long-awaited publication of the Louise Penny mystery, How...

August 2013

August 04, 2013

Pray As you Can, Not As You Can’t

I am some one for whom prayer is an organic practice. I continue to teach...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Watching and Waiting: Advent 1

Today I am confused about Advent. I mean I know what the lectionary tells me...

November 19, 2012

Thanksgiving Vespers

It is coming on to evening; I became aware last night at a concert of...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Obstacles and Distractions

I get bumped off the journey with regularity. This week was rife with what seemed...

October 13, 2012

Miracles and Wonders: A Pilgrim’s View

Returning home after a magical and mysterious pilgrimage has left me speechless...at least at first!...

September 2012

September 17, 2012

Traveling Mercies

In the last days before a trip, things can fall apart. A rear-end accident, a...

August 2012

August 24, 2012

Choosing a Life Story

I sat with a companion this week to say farewell to the journey of five...

August 17, 2012

Our Old Stories

Telling the old stories can be endlessly entertaining: "Remember the time she said...?" "Did I...

August 10, 2012

Imagining a Story of Spirit

Sitting in the backyard with my Sadie, my youngest grandchild, we notice that one toy,...

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