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July 2023

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...

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...

January 2023

January 15, 2023

The Choice You Might be Making to Hide from a Meaning-Filled Life

Running on autopilot is a choice – kind of. There are two types of autopilot:...

January 05, 2023

5 Takeaways from Barbara Holmes and Her Powerful Teaching on Interconnectedness

One of my favorite wisdom teachings: “We respond to a deeply interdependent and responsive universe...

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 04, 2022

We Need to Get Real About Freedom

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

May 2022

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...

April 2022

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....

March 2022

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...

January 2022

January 13, 2022

How We Might Embody a Holistic Approach to Harm and Justice

A few weeks ago, I began to explore my evolving sense that an embodied spirituality...

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...

January 04, 2022

A Spirituality Built on Otherizing is Not a Mature Spirituality

A spirituality built on otherizing is not a mature spirituality. When I first wrote this...

December 2021

December 30, 2021

5 Ways to Celebrate the Incarnation Right Now

At the end of my last post, I shared two commitments I’m making to carry...

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...

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