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October 2015

October 30, 2015

Vampires, Witches, & NPR: The Legacy of Margot Adler

I first heard Margot Adler’s voice on the radio — along with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Lakshmi...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Winter Solstice Spirituality: “Learning to Walk in the Dark”

My favorite season is summer, but I aspire to love the winter. Winter and I are...

August 2014

August 28, 2014

Eve Was Framed, the Serpent Was Right!

On August 13, 1971, the cover of LIFE Magazine featured an image of two women...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Scientific Rigor and Spiritual Evolution: The Work of Jeffrey Kripal

This post is part of a summer-long Patheos series on 2014 Religious Trends. This week,...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Religious Mystic & Rational Humanist: The Mystical Humanism of Jeffrey Kripal

For days, I had been participating in the annual Bengali celebration of the goddess Kali...

February 2014

February 17, 2014

“Atheism for Lent”: The Spiritual Practice of Doubt

A few months ago, I wrote a post on “Poetically Dwelling on the Earth as...

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Why Jung Threw the Yijing (or I Ching) and Why Might You?

This year the Chinese New Year will begin on what we call January 31st on...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Pagan Reflections on the Season of Samhain: Speaking to the Spark within the Darkness

Yesterday, I posted on Scarred, Scared, and Sacred: Spiritual Practices for the Fall Triduum of...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Interspirituality: Experiencing the Heart of the World’s Religions

I believe the future of religion is a spirituality that is interfaith at its core........

September 26, 2013

Water Communion and David Foster Wallace’s “This Is Water”

David Foster Wallace (1962 - 2008) is perhaps best know for his 1996 postmodern novel...

June 2013

June 09, 2013

Living the Bhagavad Gita

They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have...

May 2013

May 09, 2013

Poetically Dwelling on the Earth as a Mortal

I am a religious skeptic. I don’t believe in Yahweh, Allah, Krishna, or Ogun; nor...

May 06, 2013

Pragmatic Buddhism, Westernized Dharma, 21st-century Sangha

When I was about fifteen years old, I accidentally ran into some of the classic...

October 2012

October 08, 2012

Do We Need a Moratorium on the Word “God”?

I have been trying to find a way of being religious that’s still possible (or...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

Native American Spiritualities: Appropriation and Reciprocity

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

The First Source: Direct Experience

In 1962, only a couple of years after I was born, pollsters found that 2%...

April 2012

April 02, 2012

Individuation, The Beatles, and the Journey to Wholeness

Note: This post is part of our Lenten study of Joyce Rockwood Hudson's book Natural...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Jungian Spirituality: A Sermon Series Retrospective

For Lent, I preached a five-part series on Jungian Spirituality, based on Joyce Rockwood Hudson's book...

March 27, 2012

A Guide to Firsthand Experience with God

(David Benner, Spirituality and the Awakening Self: The Sacred Journey of Transformation, Brazos Press, 2012,...

March 26, 2012

Synchronicity, Coincidence, and “Jeff, Who Lives at Home”: Jungian Spirituality for Lent

Note: This post is part of our Lenten study of Joyce Rockwood Hudson's book Natural...

March 19, 2012

A Dream Uninterpreted Is a Letter from God Unopened

Note: This post is part of our Lenten series on Joyce Rockwood Hudson's book Natural...

March 12, 2012

Sermon Series Retrospective: “Holy Adventure”

For Lent 2011, we studied Bruce Epperly's book Holy Adventure: 41 Days of Audacious Living. The...

March 11, 2012

WWJD? (“What Would Jung Do?”): Jungian Spirituality for Lent

Note: This sermon is part of a Lenten study of Joyce Rockwood Hudson's book Natural...

March 06, 2012

Confronting the Unconscious: From Supernatural to Natural Spirituality

Note: This post is the first part in a Lenten series on Joyce Rockwood Hudson's...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Sermon Series Retrospective: Matthew Fox’s “Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality”

For Advent, I preached through the four parts of Matthew Fox's landmark book Original Blessing: A Primer...

February 18, 2012

Paul: Misogynist or Mystic?

12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the...

November 2011

November 22, 2011

Progressive Christian Reflections on Advent

How should progressive Christians approach Advent in light of twenty-first century knowledge? The following are four meditations...