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March 2016

March 11, 2016

Let the Children Come to Me: On “Dear Pope Francis: The Pope Answers Questions from Children Around the World”

(This post is part of the Patheos Book Club on Dear Pope Francis: The Pope...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Still Operating On Faith: A Painfully True Love Story

Matt Weber’s Operating on Faith: A Painfully True Love Story brings both depth and humor...

December 2015

December 22, 2015

Can a Saint be a Badass?

Can a saint be a "badass"? Can a saint be tough, sometimes abrasive, embodied, highly...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Staying Put: Stability and Novelty in the Spiritual Journey

Carl McColman’s Befriending Silence: Discovering the Gifts of Cistercian Spirituality presents a mystical spirituality for...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

Finding Spirituality in Suffering: Heather King’s “Stripped”

Stripped, Heather King’s new memoir on faith in the midst of a cancer diagnosis, brought...

September 15, 2015

Wherever There is Truth, God is its Source: On ‘The Gospel of Happiness’

Book Reflection: The Gospel of Happiness by Christopher Kaczor Can science and faith work together...

March 2015

March 19, 2015

Mary as One of Us: A Conversation with Denise Bossert’s Gifts of the Visitation: Nine Spiritual Encounters with Mary and Elizabeth.

In her new book, Gifts of the Visitation, Denise Bossert chronicles her adventures in discovering the...

March 17, 2015

The Grace of Interdependence: A Response to Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s ‘Vulnerable Faith’

As a child growing up in the Salinas Valley in California, I grew up singing...

July 2014

July 02, 2014

Saints Everywhere: On Brandon Vogt’s “Saints and Social Justice”

Although I am a progressive Protestant and by inclination feel some discomfort in setting apart...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Order and Novelty in Family Spirituality: A Response to Tim and Sue Muldoon’s Six Sacred Rules for Families: A Spirituality for the Home

A well-known saying from Zen Buddhism notes: "Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water....

September 2013

September 15, 2013

A Monastery in the Heart – A Response to Judith Valente’s “Atchison Blue”

The healing and guidance we need, Valente aptly notes, may come from “simply listening to...

September 03, 2013

Authentic Abundance: Responding to Karen Beattie’s Rock-Bottom Blessings

I am a firm believer in the holy synchronicities of life. As I read the...

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