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October 2016

October 19, 2016

The Serenity Prayer (Part 3 of 3)

By Dwight Lee Wolter. Welcome to part three, the concluding part of this three...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Spirituality and Democracy: Staying Engaged Amid Vulnerability

Together, let's build and practice the courage to stay engaged in Democracy by doing the...

December 2015

December 03, 2015

National Public Radio for the Mind

At our Wednesday mindfulness meditation practice group here at the University of Southern California, which...

October 2015

October 01, 2015

The Selfie or The Song? Seeking Jesus in the Holy Land

Danielle Shroyer’s new book “Where Jesus Prayed: Illuminations on the Lord’s Prayer in the Holy...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

Why Progressive Christians Should Pray

While many bemoan the decline of the American religious, one fact remains: religiously affiliated or...

January 2015

January 26, 2015

Five Things To Do When GOD Seems ALOOF

There is an old joke… There was a man who fell in a hole and...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

Christmas as a Season: Sybil MacBeth’s “The Season of Nativity” and a Holiday Revolution

“The whole Nativity Season deserves to be relished.” ~Sybil MacBeth There is perhaps no holiday...

November 04, 2014

Five Ways to Experience an Extreme Advent

By Sybil MacBeth Author, The Season of the Nativity: Confessions of an Advent, Christmas and...

August 2014

August 12, 2014

Why I Don’t Care if You Use Prayer Beads

I don’t care if you use prayer beads. I know that seems strange to say....

March 2014

March 04, 2014

Practicing Silence for Lent

The isolated, inhospitable desert holds attraction as a place to find deep spiritual wisdom, as...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

Circling the World in Prayer: An Interview with Shalem’s Tilden Edwards and Leah Rampy

For the past four decades, the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Washington, D.C. has been...

October 04, 2010

The Phallic Fetish Of Prayer

To help us better understand what has happened to prayer, I think we have to...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

Fourth of July Spirituality

"In the dialectical movement of not "too much" and "not too" little, when it comes...