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August 2023

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...

April 2023

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...

February 2023

February 23, 2023

My Grandparents Died This Past Year. It Felt Like Entering a Kaleidoscope of Death.

In the past year, both my Grandpa Gayle and my Grandma Betty passed away. Grandpa...

January 2023

January 01, 2023

Spiritual Formation as a Process of Seeing the Ways our Wounds Dance

Here’s a dance of terror that’s been happening within me the past couple years. In...

October 2022

October 10, 2022

Finding the Path With No Arrows in Sight on the Camino de Santiago

We crossed into the town, exhaustion in each of our steps. This stretch of the...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

Taking a Break: Off to the Camino de Santiago for September

As I wrote about last month, I’m heading out on the Camino de Santiago on...

August 22, 2022

A New Book For You: Unmasking the Inner Critic

(UPDATE: Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life is out now! Grab a...

August 18, 2022

It’s Time to Move

There is something so deeply intimate about where one lays their head. It’s such a...

June 2022

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...

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...

March 2022

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...

March 03, 2022

Uncovering the Name We Have Always Had with Richard Rohr

As John Shelby Spong helped me dismantle much of my belief system in the early...

February 2022

February 28, 2022

Teresa of Ávila and the Fruits of the Spiritual Journey: Activist in Nature

This is part three of my short series on Teresa of Ávila. You can read...

February 24, 2022

Teresa of Ávila’s Path into the Heart Cave

This is part two of my short series on Teresa of Ávila. You can read...

February 21, 2022

How Teresa of Ávila Teaches Us to Adventure into Ourselves

As we got Patmos up and running, I began to read the words of Christian...

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 16, 2022

John Shelby Spong Helped Me to Lose Myself in the Unknown

When I “left the Church,” I’ll admit I didn’t get far. I spent a few...

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...

February 03, 2022

A Teacher of Life Among Us

My earliest memories of church begin when my family and I moved to Spokane,...

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