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July 2018

July 10, 2018

Leaving My Denomination

The first time my wife and I worshipped in an Episcopal church, we were members...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

The Problem with Spiritual Fruits

The band quit playing at church because our priest asked them to sing from the...

April 25, 2017

This Place is an Altar

By Jason Bruner. Pastor David—strong, sincere, and confident in his pressed shirt and polished shoes—greets...

July 2016

July 28, 2016

Against “Amazing Grace”

In a world in which it seems that just about everything seems to be complained...

July 11, 2016

Gotta Dance

My mother was a dancer. I use the term dancer in the most flexible possible...

May 2016

May 09, 2016

Thin Places, Part 1

A few summers ago, my husband Tom and I were in Dublin for a week,...

March 2016

March 18, 2016

Dancing on the Way to Prison

By John Bryant I’m standing in a circle with thirty singing and swaying old men...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

How Much God Loves Us

By John Bryant He was born with cerebral palsy and he has it all the...

January 2016

January 25, 2016

Listening to Simone

By Christiana N. Peterson The woman stands in the entryway of our common building just...

September 2015

September 03, 2015

I Come Not to Praise the Megachurch

The church may have begun as a non-spiritual entity, a business of some sort that...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

Art as a Common Gift

Given the several ways of modernist art it is logical to conclude that the production...

February 2013

February 26, 2013

We Are All Immigrants

Several years ago I had the humbling honor of sharing my journey as a convert...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

The Eclipse of the Airport Chapel

The San Francisco International Airport has a yoga room, but no chapel. At least that’s...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

A Tale of Two Rivers

“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived...