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January 2026

January 01, 2026

The Power of Story in Spiritual Identity and Self Awareness

We do not experience our lives apart from the stories we tell of our lives....

January 28, 2025

Re-Learning How to Ask for Help: The Art of Interdependence

Recently I left for the store and forgot my phone. When, a few blocks from...

January 17, 2025

Changing Perspective from Within: ‘Signs’, Faith, and Doubt

In the story in this week’s lectionary gospel (John 2:1-11), Jesus tells his mother he...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

On Feeling Worthy of the Healing and Provision We Need

Have you, at times, longed for a pathway forward—whether a way out of a stuck...

September 2024

September 05, 2024

What Do Spiritual Communities Provide Kids?

It is one of those weeks where everywhere I turn, folks are talking about the...

November 2023

November 14, 2023

The Magic of Godparenting

In the earliest photo of us, I am concealed behind the bloom of Wren’s baptismal...

October 2023

October 24, 2023

Why Quiet Listening is Important Action

Do you too feel it—the disorienting internal pressure we experience in social-media-soaked times to say...

October 03, 2023

Finding a Wider View

The unthinkable is happening. One of the country’s two major political parties has become the...

August 2023

August 16, 2023

Why it Matters that Mary was Like You

This week, our farm acquired a rooster needing a home. He is big and bantam,...

August 09, 2023

’32 Flavors and Then Some’: On the Benefits of Being a Generalist

In talking about his book Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialist World, David Epstein...

August 04, 2023

When Unmoored, You Search for Moorings: Why We Are All Religious

For six years in my mid-30s, I stopped attending church. I thought the only way...

July 2023

July 28, 2023

You Are More Than Your Body: The ‘Wolf at My Door’ Series

{For the beginning of this series, click HERE} July brought a turnaround from my early...

July 13, 2023

On Succession, Flannery O’Connor, and the Thrall of Rotten Characters

I am currently in the thrall of Succession, the HBO series that recently ended (and...

June 2023

June 16, 2023

In Praise of a Quiet Life

In praise of waking when wakefulness stirs you because you do not own an alarm...

June 06, 2023

You Can Change! Jairus and the Back of the Line

I often point out how in Jesus’ teaching of God’s vision, ‘the first will be...

October 2022

October 12, 2022

‘Heaven and Earth are full of your glory’

The parable in this Sunday’s lectionary reading (Luke 18:1-8) about a widow’s persistence before an...

September 2022

September 17, 2022

LiFT: Listen, Follow, Trust

A close friend is going through a time. Many of us have been there: that...

July 2022

July 11, 2022

Our own small part of the work: Climate change and end-of-the-world talk

When I read a passage in the gospels, I like to read backward and forward...

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