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September 2016

September 07, 2016

I Have No Idea Where I’m Going

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

My Prayer Is Not Prayer

My prayer is not prayer, not exactly. It includes words. It may even begin with...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

Seeking Refuge

By Shannon Huffman Polson I’d just put my two young sons to bed when I...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

The Dissonant Note

This post was made possible through the support of a grant from The BioLogos Foundation’s...

June 29, 2015

Learning to Pray

Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything. —Abba Moses The...

June 26, 2015

Divine Drudgery

Two weeks after we moved to the Mennonite community in rural Illinois, a baby was...

June 17, 2015

Wanted: God—Dead or Alive?

If you practice a religion faithfully—faith-fully—, why do you do this? And why is it...

June 12, 2015

Sunday Morning at Wegmans, Prince George’s County, Maryland

It is the Feast of Pentecost on the Eastern Orthodox calendar, the annual commemoration of...

June 11, 2015

Prayers in the River

I stand hip-deep in a river, casting into the eddies. I am not the kind...

May 2015

May 29, 2015

Triple Scoop

By Jessica Mesman Griffith My best friend died suddenly almost two years ago. She’d lived...

May 28, 2015

What Is a Christian?

According to recent survey by the Pew Research Center, the number of U.S. adults who...

May 22, 2015

The Two Lists

Seven-year old Isaiah found a small desk in the back of our garage and claimed...

May 18, 2015

In the Marrow of Depression and Anxiety

By the time you read this, I’ll be feeling much better. Therapy will have commenced,...

May 14, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Jan Vallone: You say that joy is the knowledge of the possession...

May 13, 2015

Contemplative Questions: An Interview on Spirituality and Prayer with Fr. Raymond Shore, OP, Part 1

Spurred by both confusion and curiosity, I recently took a graduate course on contemporary spirituality...

May 12, 2015

Facing Calvary

There’s a line from last year’s thought-provoking film, Calvary, that’s uttered by a young French...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

What Will Pass for Mercy

By Brian Volck “Do not say God is just. Justice has not been evident in...

April 13, 2015

No Glory in Jericho

I was standing with a Palestinian Muslim and three Jews. Jericho. The ancient city. Some...

April 10, 2015

Prayer in Five Parts

“Prayer…is always available to us.” –St. Seraphim of Sarov I I sit atop my red...

March 2015

March 27, 2015

Dollar Store Evangelism

Because I enjoy the finer things in life, I ran into Dollar Tree the other...

March 20, 2015

My Only Begotten Sin

Because I remain restless and impatient even in middle age, I am often only halfway...

February 2015

February 23, 2015

The Tenth Leper

Guest post by Kelly Foster If you grow up in the South, you learn to...

February 20, 2015

Back to the Drawing Board

To say I can't draw myself out of a cardboard box is to assume I...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Rules for Celebrating: An Observation from the Way of Saint James, Part 2

Continued from last week. The Way of Saint James—El Camino de Santiago—is a pilgrimage across...

August 15, 2014

Our Mother Mary

Today is the Feast of the Dormition (the “falling asleep”) of the Mother of God....

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Blow on the Coal of the Heart

I light the first candle of Advent. We have no wreath. This is our first...

September 2013

September 11, 2013

Spiritual Counsel Part 2: Prayer and the Desert

As I wrote yesterday, my spiritual director, Fr. Bill Shannon, had said early in our...

September 10, 2013

Spiritual Counsel Part 1: Barking Dogs

“It’s good that you see spiritual direction in terms of a dog, instead of only...

August 2013

August 29, 2013

Falling Upward: Don Draper Meets Richard Rohr

Guest Post By Cathy Warner The opening credits of Mad Men have always disturbed...

August 27, 2013

I Hate Summer

We are on the lip of September. August has passed rapidly once again, predictably, dying...