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January 2020

January 10, 2020

Becoming God’s Breath

I had a powerful mystical encounter today while I was talking with a friend and...

November 2017

November 27, 2017

Prayer: Waiting For the Lover Who Often Doesn’t Come

The day before Thanksgiving, I went to a used bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas. It...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Why you need to read Henri Nouwen

Every other summer, my family goes to visit my wife's cousin on his ranch in...

October 02, 2017

Some Thoughts on “Thoughts and Prayers”

Prayer is always primarily about the transformation of the one doing it.

March 2017

March 03, 2017

Detoxify Christianity: A FB Live Video Series for Lent

If you don't think there's anything toxic about American Christianity, then you can stop reading...

November 2016

November 28, 2016

The two prayers we can pray

It seems like now would be a good time to go back to the basics....

November 10, 2016

Why it’s not time to ask people of color to be hopeful and pray for unity

All of us are trying to figure out what to say, and many of us...

May 2016

May 07, 2016

A prophecy and two visions from Acts for our United Methodist General Conference

The book of Acts is supposed to model for us how the early church engaged...

April 2016

April 30, 2016

Religion is the only hope for the American church

I just finished breakfast with a man who has been one of my most important...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

A lesson in walking slowly

My son Isaiah and I have developed a tradition. Each Saturday after he plays soccer...

July 2015

July 15, 2015

The woman with the orthopedic shoes at my Monday mass

For two and a half years, I spent my Mondays at the Basilica of the...

June 2015

June 08, 2015

Church without chatter: a weekend with the monks of St. Joseph Abbey

This past weekend, I found myself home alone without my wife or kids, so I...

November 2014

November 04, 2014

When I need a weak Jesus to be my friend (an encounter with an icon)

Yesterday was a very rich day of healing for me. So many of my readers...

September 2014

September 06, 2014

How Andrew W.K. messed with my prayer life

The Village Voice in New York City has a weekly advice column by a guy...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Spiritual tinkering: good or bad?

We've been having a stimulating conversation at the campus ministry summer institute at Candler School...

May 2014

May 20, 2014

Can we stop using “I’ll pray for you” as a retort in social media?

I'll pray for you. How many of you have tweeted or commented that on facebook...

May 06, 2014

Would Jesus pray at a city council meeting?

The more that I think about the recent Supreme Court ruling defending the use of...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

Some Henri Nouwen thoughts on prayer

A woman from my church gave me a bunch of spiritual books because she was...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

We are always praying; the question is to whom

Yesterday our senior pastor preached a thought-provoking sermon on prayer based upon Jesus' teaching in...

June 2013

June 25, 2013

The voice you long to hear (a gathering at Burke United Methodist Church)

There's a voice of love in the world that is always telling each of us...

June 06, 2013

Is yoga Satanic? E.W. Jackson and Al Mohler think so.

An Atlantic Monthly article yesterday took a look at some comments made by one of...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Prayer: the antidote to suburgatory?

Some of you know that I hate living in suburgatory. I love the friends that...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Why you need to listen to Brian Zahnd

I'm about to leave on a youth retreat so I don't have time for a...

November 05, 2012

A prayer for peace and integrity at the polls

Lord, we take many things for granted in our country, but the fact that we...

August 2012

August 28, 2012

My Mondays with Mary

As I've shared before, I spend my Mondays in the National Shrine of the Basilica...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

Helplessness: the foundation of prayer

My prayer life sucks! There, I admitted it. I don't pray nearly enough. I even...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

My zeal wears me out: Monster-psalm Meditation #18

My zeal wears me out, for my enemies ignore your words. Psalm 119:139 I resonate...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Agonizing Over the Will of God

When I visited my grandfather's church in Corpus Christi, Texas a few years back, there...

July 2011

July 08, 2011

Why Nouwen is Better than Chocolate, Part 3

The third book I read in my Nouwen binge was Creative Ministry. It reimagines 5...