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July 2014

July 21, 2014

Practical Theology: A Yellow Bunny

We got the authors of three recent books of practical theology together and asked them...

July 18, 2014

Practical Theology: Sounds Like Mysticism

We got the authors of three recent books of practical theology together and asked them...

July 15, 2014

Practical Theology: On Others’ Mystical Experiences

We got the authors of three recent books of practical theology together and asked them...

July 09, 2014

Bearing Beauty: The Studio P(atheos) Interview Series with Guest Josh Cleveland

"My Dad's a really good hugger. It's kind of like being hugged by a big...

July 02, 2014

Wild Christianity at the Wild Goose Festival

"God did not outsource mercy; God said 'I'll come myself!'" -- Rev. William Barber "The...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Bearing Beauty: The Studio P(atheos) Interview Series with guest John Noltner

"Bearing beauty includes creating beautiful things and being about beautiful movements in our world...often movements...

April 2014

April 28, 2014

A Divine Comedy, of Sorts: On Banana Peel Theology

“He laughed, he, Jorge. For the first time I heard him laugh.” ...

April 28, 2014

Bearing Beauty: The Studio P(atheos) Artist Interviews

"And we were put on earth a little space To learn to bear the beams...

April 09, 2014

A Gentle Fraying: Observing a Homespun Lent, Week 6

Found Objects The following is an excerpt from the Palm Sunday chapter in my book A...

April 02, 2014

Observing a Homespun Lent, Week 5: Beginning Again

Beginning Again Well here I am. I am stuck in the middle. The middle of...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Stronger Together: Observing an Interfaith Lent

By J. Dana Trent Author, Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister...

March 26, 2014

A Gentle Fraying: Observing a Homespun Lent, Week 4

Once upon a time I coveted a house and twenty acres. But it was no...

January 2014

January 06, 2014

14 Hopes for 2014

Each year I remix some of my hopes and dreams for the New Year, bringing...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Peace on Earth: Contemplating the Possibility

The greeting cards arrive extolling, “Peace on Earth.” They come as messengers, revealing the longings...

December 13, 2013

Welcoming the Stranger: A Q&A with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Two of my favorite Patheos bloggers - Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Bruce Reyes-Chow have published important books...

December 12, 2013

Birthing God: Women’s Experiences of the Divine

A few years ago, I sent out Christmas cards with a Meister Eckhart* quote on...

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...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

There Will Soon Be No More Priests: A Review of Occupy Spirituality

Matthew Fox's new book "Occupy Spirituality" is at least as much about "occupying" religion in...

September 13, 2013

Occupy Spirituality: A Video Interview with Matthew Fox

Think the Occupy Movement has come and gone? Not so, claims renowned theologian Matthew Fox,...

August 2013

August 27, 2013

To Sing and Dance: Confessions of a Religious, but Not Spiritual

When I think about spiritual disciplines as something I need to do in order to...

August 20, 2013

Matheomatics

St. John of the Cross, the Spanish mystical priest of the 16th century, drew a...

August 15, 2013

Opening the Heart: an excerpt from my new Patheos Press novel, SOULJOURN

An excerpt from SOULJOURN, my new novel (Chapter 6): I went home, said goodnight to...

August 12, 2013

Wild Goose Day Four: Ecosystems

My branch of mostly-white Protestant Christianity is obsessed with its own death. It frets about...

August 11, 2013

Wild Goose Day Three: Closer To Fine

I don’t know if I’ve ever had an ecstatic religious experience before. Certainly those experiences...

August 09, 2013

Wild Goose Day One: Notes on Pilgrimage

The day began at the airport, the great temple to modern travel. Eleventh Busiest Airport...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

Seeing God’s Presence in All Things: Embracing Visual Social Media in Ministry

I think we’re embracing these visual social media tools with unprecedented swiftness because we know...

July 11, 2013

Seeking God in the Wilderness: Joining a Sacred Quest

I do not know how to begin that process of awakening to my kinship with...

July 09, 2013

Silence with a Sloth: On Meeting the Divine in Costa Rica

I had heard about the Sloth-man a few days before meeting him in a Quaker...

July 03, 2013

Getting My Goose On: A Q&A with Wild Goose Festival Director Gareth Higgins

With only five weeks to go to the third annual Wild Goose Festival in Hot...

December 2012

December 03, 2012

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Week 2

Traveling Advent to Epiphany: Roadside Assistance from Luke and Matthew A Meditation on the Gospel...