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June 2014

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....

June 07, 2014

A Long Loving Look at Slow Church

A Long Loving Look at Slow Church, by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison I am...

April 2014

April 11, 2014

Revisiting GracePlaces–Gratitude in Holy Week

During Lent I have been returning to practices where I had already experienced the Grace...

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...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

A Gift for the Introverts Among Us: A Review of Quiet-The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

I am delighted that Susan Cain, author of Quiet has had the power, and has...

October 2011

October 29, 2011

Seminary: Growing Roots, Spreading Wings

For thirty years I was deeply connected to seminary life: a student, a pastor supervisor,...

September 2011

September 09, 2011

A Prayer for 9/11

From the far coast we remember the anniversary of the horror and grief and carnage...

September 03, 2011

Longing for Water

I wake up longing for water...in me, around me, through me. I feel dryness of...

August 2011

August 13, 2011

Watching for Signs

On a road trip across the western part of the country, one is treated to...

June 2011

June 24, 2011

Greening, Restoring: Praising!

I grew up with a Bible-quoting mother. Much of the wisdom and framework for our...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

North American Idols

I had an early exposure to idols, really enormous ones in a land far, far...

May 23, 2011

The Time In Between

This past week seemed vacant, with few dates in my Day-Runner (Luddite that I continue...

May 13, 2011

Lady Julian Action–from the Margins

This past week, as so many weeks, have been full of headline frenzy: the killing...

May 03, 2011

Sons and Mothers

The unseen presence at the British Royal Wedding this past week was the mother whose...

April 2011

April 23, 2011

Into Holy Hands

It is Holy Saturday and I am quietly resting in the turn of the season,...

April 15, 2011

A Whole Holy Week

I feel very resistant to the drama at the start of this Holy Week! There...

April 07, 2011

Teapots, Great and Small

Lent 5: ...

April 01, 2011

A Sunday with Roses

Lent 4: Mothering Sunday ...

March 2011

March 25, 2011

Time for Pain

Lent 3 ...

March 19, 2011

Discern the Truth, Name the Evil

Lent 2: Luke 19: 41-48 Spirit of truth and judgement, who alone can exorcise the...

March 11, 2011

Coraggio!

I entered this Lenten season feeling in need of a teacher. In this culture of...

March 01, 2011

Piecing a Quilt

In a few days the season of Lent will begin, a process of preparing for...

February 2011

February 21, 2011

Holy Beauty, Beautiful Holiness

Retreating to a spiritual center is a life-giving enterprise for anyone who needs to take...

February 13, 2011

Anam Cara

I often wear a silver cuff bracelet with the words "Anam Cara" on it, Gaelic...

February 05, 2011

Just Stop

Some weeks all the blocks come tumbling down: a mission to which I have been...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

Laughter of Love

Loving another can be demanding work; paying attention, listening deeply, holding your tongue, ladling cups...

January 21, 2011

Keeping Vigil

The image of astronaut Captain Mark Kelly shown by the hospital bedside touched my heart...

January 13, 2011

Too Many Words, Too Much Silence

In these days following the horror of the shootings in Arizona, I have been almost...

January 06, 2011

Starry, Starry Night

I have loved Christmas, but more of my life is like the Epiphany story. It...

December 2010

December 31, 2010

One Step Enough

This week between Christmas and New Year has felt extraordinarily gloomy to me....like John Henry...