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November 2023

November 18, 2023

Oh Smell and See That the Lord is Good

It is perhaps the subtlest sense to lose.

November 01, 2021

Candy, WandaVision, Community, and Grace

At this particular thin place we meet so many things, but one of them is...

June 2021

June 05, 2021

A Thousand Points of Very Painful Light

Maybe the best metaphor for autism is that other one about ducks - being nibbled...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Coronavirus Pilgrimage

As COVID slowly reduces its risk to the level of risks I accept every day...

May 12, 2021

This Strangest Eastertide

Here's a friendly reminder we're still in the strange almost post-COVID Easter season....

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Beers With Jesus

Long ago, when people could gather together, in a friendly neighborhood place that could have doubled...

September 2020

September 02, 2020

The Summer of the Dryer Ball

There is no logical, or sacramental, or doctrinal connection between the persistent dryer ball that...

July 2020

July 05, 2020

Coronavirus Monastery

Sabbath is necessary, and this one was overdue. But the thing about sabbaths is that...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

Merry Advent

The kingdom of justice and peace that George Bailey wants, for two hours, just does...

April 2019

April 23, 2019

Surprised By Easter

It has not been an Easter kind of spring.

March 2019

March 22, 2019

This is My Content, Tweeted for You

There are thousands of digital ways to deliver spiritual content and in my more Luddite...

February 2019

February 09, 2019

Grieving While Productive

Yesterday I wrote on my Facebook page "The Victorians had the right idea. Put black...

January 2019

January 15, 2019

New Year, New Me? Rest and Burnout

I made two New Years' resolutions this year: to start blogging here again, and to...

March 2018

March 20, 2018

Joy, Toil, Rest, Busyness, and Being Back

You can picture me over the last few weeks being overscheduled. But you can also...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Life: It’s An Embodied Kind of Thing

Bodies matter. They matter at work and they matter at play.

November 2016

November 11, 2016

O God of Earth and Altar #VeteransDay #2016Election

I've been working on a post* about my complicated post-election feelings and how they relate...

October 2016

October 23, 2016

The Inner and the Outer Voices of Love: Henri Nouwen and His Friends

This post is part of a Patheos Book Club on the book Love, Henri: Letters on...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

The date that changed John Wesley, and a lot more people too: Happy #Aldersgate !

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was...

May 12, 2016

What If the Devil Isn’t in the Details?

What if if is not the devil but God who is in the details?

April 2016

April 21, 2016

Why a Lutheran pastor offers “free prayer” in a coffeeshop

A pastor’s first job is to “take care of our people,” writes a Lutheran pastor....

February 2016

February 13, 2016

Jesus Still Weeps

By Mike Coyner As a child in Sunday School asked to memorize and recite Bible...

February 11, 2016

7 Prayer Habits of Highly Effective People

We asked 15 business people leading Kingdom-building companies around the world what prayer habits, practices...

February 09, 2016

Swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son shall shine: #AshWednesday

Wilt thou forgive that sin, where I begun, which is my sin, though it were...

December 2015

December 18, 2015

Working at Rest: Make a Breathing Space For Yourself at Christmas

By Jordan Dillon I work on my day off. My mind organizes tomorrow’s tasks as...

December 17, 2015

Can your work be worship….

....even if you work on a construction site? RightNow Media thinks so: For more, check...

December 15, 2015

Paralyzed by Grace? What We Can Learn From Monastic Discipline

Adapted from Grateful to the Dead. We wonder today why we are spiritually anemic....

December 11, 2015

Advent and the grace of delayed gratification

By Christopher Edmonston In our world of instant delivery and fast passes, the countercultural...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Praying for Paris and More

By Mike Coyner The terrible events of this past weekend in Paris remind us to...

November 11, 2015

A prayer and a poem for #VeteransDay

(or, as my British relatives call it, Remembrance Day...) Almighty God, we commend to your...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

Meeting patients where they are: a further report from Grace Prescriptions (third in a series)

Read more about the conference here: How to write a Grace Prescription 10 things I...