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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 04, 2022

Who Can I Listen to for Support and Guidance?

We live in a society that breathes stress and anxiety. From the constant deadlines of...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

Have You Gone on the Camino de Santiago?

In just over a month, I'll be trekking along the Camino de Santiago. (Before we...

July 25, 2022

Free Tool: Find Wisdom When You Need It

So much of my spirituality is connected to the teachings of the mystics and elders...

July 21, 2022

What Can the Mystics Teach Us About Reconstructing our Image of the Divine?

The reason, it seems to me, the mystics are rarely spoken of in church settings...

July 18, 2022

What Do I Mean When I Say “God?”

It has been a long time since the word "God," for me, referred to a...

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...

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 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 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 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 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 31, 2022

Sitting with the Teachings of Mystics: An Evening with Teresa of Ávila

When I was younger, I had several teachers who served as mentors for me -...

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 21, 2022

Writing from the Spiritual Desert Where Doubt and Faith Coexist

A few months ago, I had the immense privilege to write a small piece for...

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...

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