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November 2023

November 01, 2023

A Simple Storytelling Practice: Seeing the Divine All Around Us

As an experiment, I’ve recorded an audio version of this article (plus a little extra)...

September 2023

September 29, 2023

3 Levels of Inner Work and Engaging in Spiritual Formation

In 2019, following several years of engaging centering prayer and other forms of Christian meditation...

September 14, 2023

Are You Uncomfortable Being in Church?

I'm uncomfortable being in church spaces. And over the past few years of leading workshops,...

September 10, 2023

The Johari Window: A Framework for Spiritual Awareness

In 1955, psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham developed a framework for mapping our awareness...

August 2023

August 22, 2023

3 Core Concepts That Will Introduce You to Shadow Work

Over the past five years, almost every workshop I’ve led has involved, in one way...

August 15, 2023

Church Leaders: Please Assess the Ways Your Community Gathers

The way we gather says a lot about us, whether it's for Sunday worship or...

August 01, 2023

Entering the Tender and Frustrating Liminal Space of Disillusionment

In 2015, I took my first job in education as a public high school teacher...

July 2023

July 26, 2023

How to Engage Deep, Heavy Soulwork in a Soft, Light-Hearted Way

There’s an experience many of us have: running on autopilot, going through the motions, just...

July 01, 2023

Freedom By Another Name: Giving Up Our Illusions of Personal Freedom

From a young age, many of us have been taught to idealize personal freedom. In...

May 2023

May 22, 2023

4 Quotes That Will Introduce You to Shadow Work

Over the past few years, almost every workshop I’ve led has involved, in one way...

April 2023

April 21, 2023

Banning Abortion Drugs is an Attack on Women’s Inherent Dignity

While the Supreme Court chose today to preserve women's access to mifepristone for a bit...

April 17, 2023

Spirituality is a Process of Sinking into a Depth of Presence and Experience

A few years ago, I found I was really struggling to stay present. I would go on...

April 06, 2023

What Richard Rohr and Neil deGrasse Tyson Tell Us About Resurrection as a Universal Pattern

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

April 04, 2023

3 Inner Work Questions for Parents and Grandparents of Toddlers and Young Children

Each of us operates with default settings running beneath our windows of attention. Becoming a...

March 2023

March 02, 2023

What Gods Are You Worshiping?

The reason I left the Church was because the god I was handed simply wasn’t...

January 2023

January 17, 2023

6 Key Components for a Deep and Meaning-Filled Small Group

In order to create beautiful and vulnerable small group space, a healthy container first has...

January 12, 2023

A Message for Exhausted World-Fixers to Move Beyond Sunk Costs and Honor Your Inherent Dignity

You don't need to keep trying. When we commit ourselves to sunk costs, this commitment...

January 06, 2023

7 Questions for Christians (and everyone else) to Ask When You’re Feeling Angry

Fun fact: I spend a lot of time with consistent low-level anger. It usually has...

December 2022

December 04, 2022

How Can Spiritual Formation Help Us Connect with Our Inner Lives?

A few years ago, I sat in a packed auditorium surrounded by hundreds of others...

November 2022

November 21, 2022

The Disillusionment of Church: Why Even Bother?

I sat in the front row of my childhood church in what I knew to...

November 07, 2022

4 Steps for Questioning Your Inner Critic

Here’s a simple method for questioning your inner critic. In education, there is a process...

August 2022

August 15, 2022

An Invitation into Shadow Work: Learning to See Deeply

Read more about shadow work here. In the spiritual life, shadows represent the parts of...

August 11, 2022

Why Church Won’t Change

If you hang around churches and church communities for long enough, you’ll almost certainly hear...

July 2022

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 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...

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