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May 2025

May 25, 2025

The Sacred Practice of Sitting with Mystery

Sitting with Mystery In a post I wrote in 2023 around the spiritual practice of...

May 22, 2025

Comparing Notions of Experience

On May 19, Richard Rohr examined the influence of experience in his morning meditation. Rohr...

May 16, 2025

Ezekiel’s Prophetic Relevance Today

I have been reading through the Revised Common Lectionary recently and saw that the recent...

May 10, 2025

Dismantling our Silos and Sharing Our Grain

Recently, I taught a section in my World Religions Class around the idea of Religions...

May 08, 2025

Mother’s Day 2025: Honoring the Spirit of Motherhood

Opening Reflection Mother's Day in the United States has origins in the 19th century, with...

May 02, 2025

How Prayer Matures: A Journey from Ritual to Relationship

Prayer: Conversations in Faith I am sitting at my desk this afternoon, beginning my second...

May 01, 2025

Freedom and Faith: Taming Internal Chaos With Mindfulness

Condemned to Freedom Humans are bound to two certainties: freedom and death. Jean-Paul Sartre asserts...

April 2025

April 27, 2025

Go and Tell, Post Resurrection Reflections

The significance of Jesus' death for first-century Jews and the Roman Empire cannot be overstated....

April 22, 2025

Pope Francis’ Christ Centered Life

Pope Francis passed away this week. While I am no longer Catholic, my early formational...

April 19, 2025

John Wesley’s Spiritual Insights

Introduction For my second post, I want to explore Wesely’s notions of inner and outer...

April 17, 2025

Considering the Death of God

Echoes of Nietzche We would first come aware of the notion of the death of...

April 11, 2025

Confronting the “Weakness” of God

Empathy Under Attack Recently, I have been observing a peculiar thought process among some Christians,...

April 08, 2025

The Significance of Names – Addressing the Divine

Names are important in all societies. They can tell us about a person’s job and...

April 05, 2025

The Essence of Lagom: A Spiritual and Philosophical Journey

Embracing Balance and Moderation Being a therapist and at one point, a pastor, I get...

April 04, 2025

Martin Luther King’s Resonance in 2025

Remembering Martin Luther King On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced the assassination of...

March 2025

March 30, 2025

Did Jesus Become a Myth So Faith Could Survive?

Bultmann’s Mythology of Jesus As we move towards Easter 2025 and we celebrate the life...

March 27, 2025

Holy Meals Remembering: Jesus’ Last Meal

An Exploration of Wesleyan Tradition and Theology This week, in my analysis of Wesley’s Ordinances...

March 22, 2025

Devotion Beyond Borders: Reading Sacred Texts Deeply

Lectio: Reading the Bible Reading the bible or any sacred text is an act of...

March 22, 2025

Grace, Stoicism, and the Absurd: Finding Peace Today

Grace in Times of Stress As the world continues to spin and geopolitics continue to...

March 16, 2025

Deepening Prayer: Wesley’s Wisdom and Contemplative Tips

The Power of Prayer I want to explore in my second post this week's prayer....

March 14, 2025

The Importance of Church in a Post Church World

We are social creatures. We thrive when we are in community and community is one...

March 07, 2025

Why Might Jesus Be Perceived Differently in Today’s Society

I came across a quote last week that posited the idea that the historical Jesus...

March 02, 2025

Is Truth Dead? Seeking Knowledge with Humility and Love

Truth is Dead?! In 2017, Time Magazine declared that “Truth is Dead”. This article confronted...

March 02, 2025

Countering MAGA Christianity

What can other faiths tell us about our own? This week, I want to reflect...

February 2025

February 21, 2025

The Power of “Shall”: Jesus, Leviticus, and Moral Integrity

How Shall We Go I read an interesting article the other day that pointed us...

February 18, 2025

Choose Life – the Way We Live Matters

Life was busy last week; I got my first seven-hour training week in for the...

February 12, 2025

How We Love: Embracing Christ’s Agapic and Kenotic Love

Cultivating Right Relationships Once again, we find ourselves celebrating the romantic holiday of Valentines' Day....

February 08, 2025

Discipline as a Spiritual Practice

Jesus asks us to keep watch in his story of the ten virgins. We are...

February 08, 2025

Finding Faith in Tumultuous Times: Lessons from History

I remember a worship service I did with my youth group years ago when I...

February 02, 2025

Who Are You? The Spiritual Practice of Identity

I have spent the last few posts considering a thoughtful reaction to the rapid changes...