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July 14, 2022

4 Steps To Connect Deeper and Transform our Lives

In a recent podcast, I shared that I believe much of our American culture, and...

July 11, 2022

What Does it Mean to Sink into our Depths?

About a month ago, I shared this hugely impactful story from my life. This is...

July 10, 2022

3 Wisdom Teachings that Help Me Grieve

A few months ago I wrote a piece detailing the wisdom teachers who have...

July 07, 2022

Wisdom is at the Crossroads

Does not wisdom call and does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights, beside...

July 04, 2022

We Need to Get Real About Freedom

For many of us, myself very much included, we have been brought up to respect,...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

Pastoring, Re-wilding God, and the Contemplative Path

It’s a strange thing to be connected with so many Christian clergy and yet have...

June 27, 2022

The Mediocre is Unacceptable

If you’re a teacher, a pastor, or a professor - I have some questions. (Full...

June 23, 2022

Experiencing Spirituality as Radical

Another way we might think of spirituality is as a radical process of seeing what’s...

June 20, 2022

Clutter In Our Lives

There had been an emergency. Having picked up the phone on its second ring, I...

June 16, 2022

Lessons from Each of My Car Crashes

Lesson 1: Wear a seatbelt. When I was eight years old, I was in the...

June 13, 2022

Are You in the Midst of It?

My good friend James A. Pearson wrote the following poem as the full weight of...

June 09, 2022

The Anxiety of the Moment and the Hornets Buzzing in My Chest

For the past few years, there seems to be an every-present level of heightened anxiety...

June 06, 2022

The Simple Quote from James Finley That Brought Me to My Depths

(UPDATE: My book, Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life has now been...

June 02, 2022

Church Should Feel Like a Workshop

There’s a big difference between taking a “course” and taking a “workshop.” A course is...

May 2022

May 30, 2022

Is Your Church Remarkable? And If Not, Why Do You Go?

How can we create something remarkable? According to entrepreneur/freelancer/marketing genius Seth Godin, we create...

May 26, 2022

Questions Are More Important Than Answers

When I became a teacher, I was trained in a pedagogy and a teaching style...

May 23, 2022

What is an Embodied Spirituality?

For those of us who grew up in the Christian Church, our bodies were too...

May 19, 2022

Meet Kelsey, a Contemplative Death Doula

What do we do with death? How do we process it, understand it, prepare for...

May 16, 2022

Mary Oliver and the Question of ‘Good Enough’

I sat in the room looking back and forth between my color-coded spreadsheet and my...

May 12, 2022

What Are You Clinging To? Mary Oliver and the Practice of Letting Go

Where do you carry tension in your body? For as long as I can remember,...

May 09, 2022

What Do I Mean When I Say “Spiritual?”

(UPDATE: My book, Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life has now been...

May 03, 2022

Ending Abortion Access is an Attack on Women’s Inherent Dignity

Core to my spirituality is the trust that everyone has inherent dignity - that it...

May 02, 2022

What are Contemplative Practices?

(UPDATE NOVEMBER 1, 2022: My book, Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted...

April 2022

April 28, 2022

How Are You Tapping into Your Creative Nature?

Creativity is not a superpower. It isn’t a form of magic that is bestowed upon...

April 25, 2022

A Mystic for our Times – Julian of Norwich (Book Recommendation)

I’ll start with a disclaimer: I can’t stop thinking about this book. For a long...

April 21, 2022

I’m Not Sure I Want Community

(UPDATE NOVEMBER 1, 2022: My book, Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted...

April 18, 2022

What is an Online Journaling Café and Yoga Studio? A Conversation with Melissa of Atelier Grace

A few months ago, I was sitting down to write in my journal for a...

April 14, 2022

Experiencing Easter as a Universal Story

Holy Week has historically been my favorite part of the Christian calendar; it’s earthy, emotional,...

April 11, 2022

Three Tools for Centering our Curiosity and Exploring the Divine

In the community organizing world, there is a saying: questions are more important than answers....

April 07, 2022

Experiencing God in the World Through Pedestrian Dignity

Last week, I posted the first half of a conversation with Jonathon Stalls. Jonathon is...

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