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April 2016

April 23, 2016

Wrestling God on the Chama River

It is near sunset at Christ in the Desert Benedictine monastery in Abiquiu, New Mexico....

April 15, 2016

New Wine in Old Winskins? Questions for the New Monastics

I recently read Rory McEntee and Adam Bucko's The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative...

April 09, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove (Part 4)

Global Significance of Sacred and Religious Forests In addition to the vast areas of protected...

April 07, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove (Part 3)

The Restoration of a Holyscape It must be remembered however, that forests are not static...

April 06, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove: Part 2

The Axis Mundi: A Forest Becomes Sacred In addition to expressing a deep colonial...

April 05, 2016

Making the Mormon Sacred Grove: Part 1

Between Puritan Landscape and Wilderness Upon purchasing a new piece of land, New England settlers...

March 2016

March 26, 2016

The Forest Rosary

Holy Saturday is a time of breathless anticipation. Of mourning, of waiting. So, after participating...

March 25, 2016

Good Friday in the Anthropocene

The Sea is rising; the Arctic glaciers are vanishing; February was the hottest February in 137...

March 14, 2016

Divine Union: Notes on possible Catholic/Mormon Dialogue

Is Union with God something Mormons seek? If so how would you characterize it?

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

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 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...