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August 2015

August 12, 2015

The Long Overdue Conversation about Mental Illness

The thought that our minds can play tricks on us, that problems in processing can...

August 01, 2015

El Camino: A Pilgrim’s Path To Inner & Outer Peace

El Camino: The Sacred Path What is pilgrimage? Wikipedia, our new god of definition, defines...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Buddha Inside/Jesus Outside

Tonight Great Spirit said,' your story is ready to be birthed. Your peace has been...

June 2015

June 12, 2015

Hurtful Words Hurt

There are millions of new combinations of words created every day, combinations that are put...

June 10, 2015

I Used To Know How To Walk On Water

Now and then, I find myself knocked down in the dirt in confusion and only...

June 05, 2015

She was a friend of God

She was a friend of GOD I’m just getting in from my friend of 33...

May 2015

May 05, 2015

Sit with me in the I don’t know

Does the weight of the world lie heavy on your shoulders most days these past...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

Just the Rhythm of My Blood and Breath

There it is again, the rhythm of my blood and breath. And here, now, yes...

April 10, 2015

Seize life!

The quester The quester… that could describe my life and I like that! When I...

April 08, 2015

Accompaniment as Emergence

I’ve been called to a ministry of accompaniment that means I have chosen to walk...

April 05, 2015

Eye Gazing in Prison on Holy Saturday

I spent Holy Saturday at the Philadelphia FDC 3South floor with 12 incarcerated women attending...

March 2015

March 17, 2015

“You’re Only As Good As Your Friends”

Last night, Anthony Smith (aka Postmodern Negro) and I celebrated our 10-year friendiversary with an...

March 13, 2015

On Darkness and Light

Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong....

March 12, 2015

The Jesus I Need — An Easter Reflection

Because everything that comes before the empty tomb? That’s what I’m interested in. That’s what...

March 07, 2015

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

Returning to the place where my very first poem formed in my Spirit. I gaze...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

The Real Emergence

How difficult it is to become the loving, compassionate, fearless beings we were created to...

February 05, 2015

It was the Best of Times…It was the Worst of Times

An ordinary Tuesday that began and ended in tears. But what happened in between is...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

Once You are Real, You can’t be UGLY

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we...

January 12, 2015

The Wall of Love at the Gay Christian Network Conference

For the last few days I’ve been in Portland, Oregon attending the Gay Christian Network...

January 10, 2015

Could it be so easy to digest?

I always wondered what people meant when they said they are spiritual but not religious....

January 04, 2015

Living Life on the Inhale

So which one are you? An I N H A L E R or an...

December 2014

December 21, 2014

God Chooses the unexpected

She turned out not to be one of the bookies favourites, indeed no-one had heard...

December 12, 2014

Christmas Eve, Incarnation, and Knowing Mary

The setting was perfection. Large gothic sanctuary, slate floor, wooden pews with iron candle holders,...

December 05, 2014

Joy in Solemnity

'I have spoke with the tongue of angels I have held the hand of a...

November 2014

November 05, 2014

What do Pee Wee Herman and Non-Attachment have in common?

Two days ago I purchased my monthly copy of Mantra Yoga+Health magazine. I was anticipating...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

Calling My Spirit Back

Mitakuyepi (All my relations), Cante waste ya nape ciyu zape ye (I greet you from...

October 22, 2014

Rebellion and Awe

I am grateful to my people of origin, the Evangelicals. Sure they scared the hell...

October 19, 2014

Learning to Love Gordon College [my Homophobic Alma Mater]

Three weeks ago, during Gordon College’s homecoming, I stepped foot on my alma mater’s campus...

October 12, 2014

Shifting Certainty

It's colder now. The stars look brighter. The air is crisp and tastes clean. I've...

October 05, 2014

Making Me a Channel of His Peace

Two and a half years ago I attended my first Centering Prayer retreat at the...