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August 2015

August 06, 2015

“Are You Living the Life You Chose?”: How To Discern Your Call

The new album from the singer-songwriter Jason Isbell includes a song with the lyrics “Are...

July 2015

July 22, 2015

Why a 40-Hour Work Week? (It’s Decreased Before. It Could Again.)

Peter Rollins in his book The Divine Magician tells the following "Parable of a Fisherman...

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...

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...

November 2013

November 07, 2013

After Trauma & Loss: What (Not) To Say

This summer I took a unit of CPE ("Clinical Pastoral Education"), which is a continuing...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Scarred, Scared, and Sacred: Spiritual Practices for the Fall Triduum of Halloween, Samhain, and All Souls Day

Can you feel the Wheel of the Year turning? Can you feel fall in the...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

The Sacred Masculine

Most of us, irrespective of our biological sex, have some masculine aspects of ourselves, as...

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...

December 2012

December 23, 2012

Blue Christmas: When Your Days Aren’t Merry and Bright

In my family mourning was not done publicly. Therefore, I, as a child, assumed it...

July 2012

July 04, 2012

How To Lead a Congregational Discernment Process

Discernment was a major emphasis of my spiritual direction training at San Francisco Theological Seminary....

May 2012

May 02, 2012

Do You Believe in Miracles?

(E. Kent Rogers, 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: A Path of Healing from the Gospels,...

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 28, 2012

Praying with Flannery O’Connor

UPS just delivered my copy of the new Flannery O'Connor prayer book, published by Paraclete...

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 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 13, 2012

How Do I Find Time to Pray?

I've been experimenting with various ways of ordering my schedule and prioritizing my workload. In...

January 2012

January 10, 2012

Contemplative Listening: A Simple, How-to Guide

An alternate title for this post could be " What To Do If Someone Asks...

August 2011

August 16, 2011

REVIEW: "The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom"

(Christine Valters Paintner, The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, 2001, 173 pages.)...