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March 2016

March 07, 2016

Of Lions and Lambs: The Ecology of Things

In a recent blog post at A Rocha, an International Christian organization that does amazing...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Sacred Groves and Clear Cuts

In what ways does my life make more clear cuts necessary? Does my spiritual practice...

February 14, 2016

The Way: First Century Jewish Sects as Parable

when Jesus says "I am the Way" in John 14:6, perhaps we can see this...

February 10, 2016

The Seeds of Lent

For the past several months I have been on the road for my dissertation research...

February 10, 2016

Canopies

A new crescent moon chases the sun over the jagged western horizon. A canopy of...

February 03, 2016

Landscapes of Return: A Former Mormon Missionary in Catholic Dominican Republic

Returning now, 13 years later, I was less fluent in Spanish, but more fluent in...

January 2016

January 16, 2016

The Iconography of Climate Change

The God of Nature is in trouble; the Nature of God is in doubt. In...

January 10, 2016

Review: The Revenant: The Hero’s Journey and White Saviors

[Spoiler Alert] Thanks to some generous marketing people over at Patheos, I was asked to...

January 07, 2016

Thoughts on whether Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same God

Perhaps God is not a being whose parts and passions we can compare in a...

January 01, 2016

What it Means to be a Spiritual Ecologist

For many of the rising generation, spirit is not so much a shimmery version of...

December 2015

December 24, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Christmas Eve: Spirit

Reflecting on the Infinite, we celebrate the element of Spirit; in our bodies, in our...

December 22, 2015

Dark Days Within and the Return of Light

It is a little strange to be celebrating Christmas among palm trees, Winter Solstice among...

December 20, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 4: Air

“The universe began with a great outpouring of cosmic breath that has complexified over billions...

December 13, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 3: Water

Needed this week: Small bowl of water Reflecting on the Infinite, we celebrate the element...

December 07, 2015

Terrorism in the Psalms

For Christians and others to criticize ISIS for a selective and toxic reading of their...

December 06, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 2: Earth

The bread in my hand is the body of the cosmos.

December 05, 2015

Olives and Bodhisattvas: Two Religious Centers that Foster Faith through Food

Perhaps that is what draws me to spiritual ecology, or to study monastic life; the...

December 03, 2015

Worlds Less Visible

When white North Americans like myself see historic sites on the landscape, we read them...

November 2015

November 28, 2015

Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 1: Fire

Over the next four weeks I will share one of five sections from a workshop...

November 27, 2015

Fallow Deer and Vedanta

After my long drive through the Pacific Northwest, I arrived in Point Reyes National Seashore....

November 23, 2015

Paris, the Dalai Lama and Prayer

After the Paris attacks, predictably the hastag #PrayforParis surfaced. In an interview the Dalai Lama...

November 23, 2015

The Grotto

One of my first stops on my way south was in Portland, OR to see...

November 23, 2015

A Hurried Pilgrim: Introducing Holyscapes at Patheos

This week begins about six months of PhD field work throughout the Western US, where...

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