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September 2019

September 24, 2019

Finding “Slow” in a Bar at 7 AM

Growing up in the south, I learned the finer art of slow. Of course I...

August 2019

August 11, 2019

You Can’t Leave the Past Behind

The sun came up, gently, again this morning. Surprisingly I have memories of the same...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

3 Wise Conversations On Creativity, Pilgrimage, and Suffering

About a year and change ago, I started recording episodes of a podcast. The "otherWISE"...

June 2019

June 10, 2019

King David, David Lynch, and a Dragon Walk Into A Bar

Ok, so that was a wild title. It's just a reading list. But the title...

June 01, 2019

3 Podcasts That Challenged Me This Month

In a post from just after Easter, I talked about the lessons I learned while...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

When We Get Stuck (We Should Stay There)

If we feel stuck right now, perhaps we should stay there? The life of faith...

May 22, 2019

Two Books For Learning to Love With Our Thinking

Faith isn’t opposed to thinking, nor is our formation. I’ve always been interested in how...

May 04, 2019

The Case of Henri Nouwen, Rachel Held Evans, and Vincent Van Gogh

My reading list has been slim as of late, for a variety of reasons. When...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

I Gave Up Podcasts For Lent

With the Resurrection weekend behind us, and the beauty of Eastertide yet to come, I...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

A Bit About My Upcoming Book “As I Recall”

I wrote a book called "As I Recall" - could we talk about it? The...

March 25, 2019

The Spiritual Gift of Reading Aloud

I’m a sucker for new books. I am especially susceptible to pick up a book...

March 21, 2019

Thoughts on My 3 Most Recent Readings

If I had to define a primary influence for the growth - personal, spiritual, relational,...

March 15, 2019

Creative Work Needs Spirit(s)

I had a wonderful conversation yesterday during a podcast interview about writing and creativity. It reminded...

January 2019

January 17, 2019

4 Daily Mantras Driving My Formation This Year

The word "mantras" might seem out of place in the conversation about spiritual formation. I...

January 04, 2019

What I’m Reading (And Why That Matters)

It seems presumptuous to post my reading list and believe that someone would be...

December 2018

December 12, 2018

A Lesson About the Music of Formation

The sun set long before I put the car in gear, backing out of the...

December 06, 2018

Three Poets Walked Into a Sabbath…

The part of me that most resists rest and mindfulness is actually my mind, my...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

5 Touchstone Books For Spiritual Formation

The title of this post is misleading, because these books – this reading – is...

November 15, 2018

How Aging Forms Our Souls

This week, my full course around the sun came once again to an end. A...

November 05, 2018

How We Got Here

I started my first blog in 2006. Writing as a pastor in a small farming...