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November 2025

November 05, 2025

Handy Contemplative Practices for Political Spaces

A Spiritually Grounded Presence In order to bring a spiritually grounded presence into the public...

October 2025

October 31, 2025

Halloween: The Holiday of Loving Your Neighbor

All Hallows Eve Is Halloween the least Christian holiday in America, or could it be...

October 09, 2025

Trusting Jesus’s Hard Parables: The Shrewd Manager

There was a Rich Man “Then Jesus said to the disciples, “There was a rich man...

July 2025

July 24, 2025

How Mary and the Good Samaritan teach us to Press Pause

Mary and Martha As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to...

June 2025

June 09, 2025

How Pentecost Challenges our False Stories

Why The Setting Matters This week’s story of the Holy Spirit coming at Pentecost takes...

March 2025

March 27, 2025

How Jesus Teaches us to Respond to Suffering

Is There Anybody Who Has Not Experienced Suffering? Everybody has. Every one of us has...

February 2025

February 24, 2025

Love Your Enemy: The Strength to Follow Jesus’ Hardest Call

The Hardest Teaching “But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies; do...

February 10, 2025

Cast the Net Again: Being Fishers of Men

Abundance in the Lunchbox “Once while Jesus was standing beside the Lake of Gennesaret and the...

January 2025

January 24, 2025

Remembering Our Baptism with Narnia

The Shedding of the Skin My husband and I always spend Christmas Day at home,...

December 2024

December 26, 2024

The Gospel Message in Mary’s Magnificat

And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my...

December 03, 2024

The Spiritual Value of Longing in Advent

The Spiritual Value of Longing A friend told me recently that digestion has multiple stages,...

November 2024

November 19, 2024

Building Up Spiritual Endurance

Spiritual Endurance in The Wild Robot The phrase "spiritual endurance" came to me as I...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

Love Your Neighbor During Election Season

Outward Signs In the lectionary reading this past Sunday, Jesus passed blind Bartimaeus on the...

July 2024

July 30, 2024

Three Essentials of Discipleship

A Model of Discipleship The Gospels show us a model of discipleship that involves three...

May 2024

May 06, 2024

How to Abide in Christ

Creating Images of Separation and Connection One of my first classes at George Fox Evangelical...

April 2024

April 06, 2024

Roll Away the Stones of Inner, National, and Global Conflict

Who Will Roll Away the Stone? When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary...

March 2024

March 21, 2024

Four Questions to Build a Rule of Life

Love Is the Model The Rule of Life is a supportive resource that can enrich,...

February 2024

February 22, 2024

How Black History Month Can Help Us Observe A Holy Lent

Pioneers In Ordination February is Black History Month, and it's a wonderful time to celebrate...

February 13, 2024

Ash Wednesday Valentine: Leave Church Dirtier than you Came

The Normalcy of Cleanness Valentine’s Day falls on Ash Wednesday this year. This combination of...

February 07, 2024

Jesus is the Voice of God

A Particular Kind of Listening "Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli....

January 2024

January 19, 2024

Contemplative Parenting

Contemplative Parenting and Control I have been on a journey of contemplative leadership, and that...

January 09, 2024

Becoming Episcopalian

Formed By Liturgy I am reading the book, Walk in Love as part of my...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

Holding Grief with Rachel and Mary

Holding the Reality of Our Experience It can be difficult to admit when we're holding...

November 2023

November 27, 2023

Create Space For A Contemplative Christmas

Contemplative Holiday Preparation There are ways that we can create space for a contemplative Christmas. ...