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August 2017

August 31, 2017

Holy Rover Makes Its Debut

The newly released Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God is a...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

Announcing Holy-Rover-the-Book

My new book "Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, & God" (a memoir...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

Recipes for a Sacred Life

Whether she's drawing inspiration from the Dalai Lama, her mom, or her Polish neighbor on...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

The Pilgrim Journey

Why would anyone brave bedbugs, robbers, shipwrecks and other hazards to go on pilgrimage? James...

May 2016

May 17, 2016

River of Grace

Susan Bailey's River of Grace tells of finding solace and inspiration in kayaking the rivers...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Changing Climate, Observed From an Iowa Woodland

Connie Mutel's A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Woodland looks at...

March 28, 2016

Little Women and the Word: What Would Alcott Think?

My friend Susan Bailey has a new book that will appeal to Louisa May Alcott...

August 2014

August 31, 2014

A Jesus Pilgrimage with James Martin

Several years ago I visited the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, the Trappist monastery where Thomas...

July 2013

July 04, 2013

Falling Upward

Today I'm going to run the risk of redundancy by recommending a book that's already...

May 2013

May 23, 2013

Travels with Miss Eudora

I've been a-rovering again, doing research for Spiritual Travels and other publications while attending a...

January 2013

January 11, 2013

Help Thanks Wow

I love Anne Lamott for many reasons, including the fact that she wrote one of...

November 2012

November 14, 2012

The Old Carpenter

From James Martin's The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: God . . . is something...

September 2012

September 30, 2012

An Anthropologist Goes To Church

For the past few weeks I've been slowly reading my way through T.M. Luhrmann's When...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

A Child Lost in Flight

Today's post is by Susan Bailey, a faithful reader of this blog (you may recognize...

July 05, 2012

Where Nothing Is Lacking

Those of you who took my challenge to interweave your year with gratitude may have...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

Falling Upward

Today's post is by guest blogger Bob Sessions: During May our church’s adult education program...

May 07, 2012

A Life in Books

Today's post is my monthly column for the Episcopal News Service: Through the years I’ve...

March 2012

March 22, 2012

The Original Light of Creation

Today we have the final installment of Bob’s reflections on the Gospel of Thomas: The...

March 21, 2012

Being Born Into Light

Today we have Part 4 of Bob’s reflections on the Gospel of Thomas: Let me...

March 20, 2012

Being Born Again, Thomas Style

Today we have Part 3 of Bob’s reflections on the Gospel of Thomas: Being “born...

March 02, 2012

Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

What happens when the things you thought you knew about leading a spiritual life no...

January 2012

January 04, 2012

The Art Of Knowing What To Overlook

OK, I promise that this is the last tidbit from Eric Weiner's Man Seeks God:...

January 03, 2012

Inside the Labyrinth

I hope you'll indulge me in a second post on Eric Weiner's Man Seeks God:...

January 02, 2012

Flirting With the Divine

Tell me, is there any January pleasure quite so cozy as retreating to the couch...

December 2011

December 21, 2011

The Creative Darkness

In honor of the winter solstice, let me direct your attention to a lovely meditation...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

The Mother of All Virtues

When I've recommended a book on this blog, it's always been one that I've personally...

October 2011

October 13, 2011

Learning from Mortality

Amid the deluge of news coverage after Steve Jobs’ death, most interesting to me were...

September 2011

September 26, 2011

The Distilled Essence of Bob

When I first met my husband, Bob, one of the things that I found most...

August 2011

August 29, 2011

A Farewell to Concord

We end our Holy Rover tour of Concord (finally!) at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the resting...

August 28, 2011

A Few Last Words From Thoreau

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the...