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April 2020

April 05, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – Palm Sunday

XXII. PALM SUNDAY (4/5) “Hosanna, blessed is the one who comes in the name of...

April 03, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – This Little Light of Mine

XXI. THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE (4-3) You are the light of the world. A...

April 02, 2020

Vocation in a Time of Pandemic

VOCATION IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC Can this time of pandemic be a call to...

April 02, 2020

The Adventurous Lectionary – A Rabbi’s Wisdom

XX. A RABBI’S WISDOM If I am not for myself, who will be for me?...

April 01, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – Prayers Inspired by a Steeple

XIX. PRAYERS INSPIRED BY A STEEPLE “Pray without ceasing.” (I Thessalonians 5:17) Each morning as...

March 2020

March 31, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – How I Got Over

XVIII. HOW I GOT OVER? Over and over Over and over My soul looks back...

March 30, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – Pollyanna’s Glad Game

XVII. POLLYANNA’S GLAD GAME Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of...

March 29, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – I Thank You God for the Wonder of My Being

XVI. I THANK YOU GOD FOR THE WONDER OF MY BEING I praise you because...

March 28, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic: I Thank You God for Waking Me Up Today

XV. I THANK YOU GOD FOR WAKING ME UP THIS MORNING Give thanks in all...

March 27, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic: Planning Ahead

XIV. LOOKING FORWARD I have plans for you, for good and not evil, for a...

March 24, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – Avoiding Cabin Fever

XI. ON AVOIDING CABIN FEVER I’ve heard the words “cabin fever” invoked several times this...

March 20, 2020

Faith in a Time of Pandemic – You can pray!

YOU CAN PRAY Pray without ceasing. (I Thessalonians 5:17) One of the great social activists...

March 19, 2020

The Adventurous Lectionary: Fifth Sunday in Lent -March 29, 2020

The Adventurous Lectionary – The Fifth Sunday in Lent – March 29, 2020 Ezekiel 17:1-14,...

January 2020

January 09, 2020

The Adventurous Lectionary – Second Sunday after the Epiphany – January 19, 2020

The Adventurous Lectionary - Second Sunday after the Epiphany – January 19, 2020 Isaiah 49:1-7;...

August 2019

August 28, 2019

We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: Greta Thunberg and the Call to Heal the Planet

Later today, sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg will arrive in New York City to begin her American...

May 2016

May 20, 2016

Mysticism, Hallucinations, and Designer Spirituality

The dustcover of Joshua Steven Grisetti’s new book God in My Head announces that the author...

May 13, 2016

Balancing Self Interest and World Loyalty: On Dee Dee Risher’s ‘Soulmaking Room’

This post is part of a conversation on the new book The Soul-Making Room by Dee...

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...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

Walking with Jesus: Reflections on Danielle Shroyer’s “Where Jesus Prayed”

In her new book, Where Jesus Prayed, Danielle Shroyer takes us on a spiritual walk...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

Within The Trauma, A Blessing: Reba Riley’s “Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome”

Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann describes three interconnected moods in the Psalms – psalms of orientation,...

June 2015

June 15, 2015

The Heroine’s Journey: On Jody Gentian Bower’s “Jane Eyre’s Sisters”

On my study desk sits a paperweight that announces “solvitur ambulando,” or “it will be...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Thin Places, Wide Open Vistas, and the Afterlife: Reflections on ‘The Hand on the Mirror’

The Celts of Scotland and Ireland speak of certain patches of land as “thin places”...

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...

February 2015

February 15, 2015

Contrast, Stature, and Having a Fat Soul: Reflections on Joan Chittister’s Between the Dark and the Daylight

Joan Chittister’s Between the Dark and the Daylight: Embracing the Contradictions of Life is a...

August 2014

August 01, 2014

Listening for the Still, Small Voice: Reflections on Kristen Vincent’s book “A Bead and a Prayer”

“God was not in the wind…God was not in the earthquake…God was not in the...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

Big Enough Desires? Reflections on Jen Pollock Michel’s “Teach Us to Want”

Jen Pollock Michel’s Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition, and the Life of Faith is...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

Jesus in Our Genes: A Response to Christian Piatt’s “Blood Doctrine”

Does carrying Jesus’ DNA imply that you will embody Jesus’ spiritual unity with God? Was...

April 2014

April 01, 2014

C. S. Lewis and the Gift of Perspective: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

I read Alister McGrath’s If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis (now featured in the Patheos...

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