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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 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 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 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 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 04, 2022

Are Kids Actually the Future? Raising Up Elders in an Immature Culture

I stood at the art gallery, trying to understand what I was looking at. All...

March 2022

March 24, 2022

Lent as a Time of Great Disillusionment

As we enter the fourth week of the Lenten season, I’m being consistently reminded that...

March 17, 2022

What is Healthy Religion? (Part 2)

In this post, I am continuing to think about what “healthy religion” might feel like...

March 14, 2022

What is Healthy Religion? (Part 1)

A few weeks ago, Keith Kristich published a post on Instagram that defined healthy religion...

March 10, 2022

Why I Don’t Go to Church and My Experience of Depth Deprivation

Over the past few years of leading workshops, I’ve been asked again and again why...

February 2022

February 17, 2022

“What Would It Look Like to Do That Better?” and the Evolution of My Spirituality

My brother and I stared through the front window of our house as we contemplated...

February 14, 2022

Are Progressive Christians Just Democrats With God Language?

Growing up, social justice was always front and center in my faith community. When I...

February 10, 2022

Without Mystery, I Found My Home in Apathy

When I was young, my parents told me the Tooth Fairy was real. It led...

February 09, 2022

The Desire to Belong (and some thoughts on Hawaiian Bread)

My favorite part of liturgy has always been communion. When I was young, this...

February 07, 2022

The Foundations of My Deconstruction

During February, I’ll be exploring my own story with Progressive Christianity, with religion, and with...

January 2022

January 18, 2022

Living a Palms Up Life w/ Jenny Smith

At the beginning of 2020, I had the immense honor of speaking at the UMC...

January 12, 2022

Doing Small Things With Great Love in Our Community Spheres of Influence

I recently wrote about spheres of influence here. It will give more context for...

January 10, 2022

How We Can Embody Love in Our Personal Spheres of Influence

This is part one of a three-part series. You can find part two here and...

January 06, 2022

How Action and Contemplation Work in Us, According to Thomas Merton

In 2014, I joined a political campaign as a volunteer and committed to spending my...

December 2021

December 23, 2021

I Wonder What We’re Really Celebrating at Christmas

Whether I knew it or not, this question has been bouncing around in my head...

December 20, 2021

Engaging an Embodied Spirituality: Becoming Faithful Questioners and Social Poets

If you’re anything like me, your deep longing to have an embodied spirituality has stirred...

December 16, 2021

What is Your Image of God…and Do You Believe in It?

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

December 14, 2021

How Do We Develop a Meaningful Spirituality Beyond the Church?

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

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