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January 22, 2026

Why 2016 Still Matters: Immigration, DJT, & the Before-Times

Why 2016 Feels Like the End of the Before-Times Yesterday I had to search “What...

January 14, 2026

Worry Into Power: How Love, Intention, and Vision Can Heal

A Return to a Time of Worry This week I was inadvertently transported back to...

December 2025

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The Hidden Burden of Chronic Shame: A Personal Reflection

Admitting the Weight We Carry During a recent deep conversation with a friend, we both...

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November 08, 2025

Truth and the Loss of Control: On Thomas Merton’s ‘Affair’

Truth and the Loss of Control It seems at least once in our adult lives,...

October 2025

October 26, 2025

Freedom in Humility: God Loves Us Even When We’re Imperfect

If anything distinguishes ancient life from modern life—with our constant connectivity via the internet and...

October 13, 2025

God Chooses Powerlessness

I often hear people question the existence of God because of theodicy, which is the...

October 02, 2025

The Secret Life of Chronic Illness

If you or someone close to you has a chronic illness, defined as “a health...

September 2025

September 22, 2025

Learning to Live Together ‘Some Other Way’

In 2003, during a period of change in myself and my life, I wrote and...

August 2025

August 24, 2025

The Sizzle of Curses and the Balancing Act of Karma

Lately I’ve been thinking about curses. As in cursing people. This sounds violent, I know;...

September 2023

September 19, 2023

Using a Different Metric of Fairness: The Parable of the Vineyard Workers

The upcoming lectionary passage in Matthew 20:1-16 strikes me as timely. The attitude we see...

October 2022

October 08, 2022

“Wade in the Water”: On Trouble, Vision Quest, and the Spiritual Life {Part Two}

These days, many in the US and globally see our collective, national waters as troubled....

September 2022

September 19, 2022

Go and Speak Fearlessly

I am somewhat haunted by a woman I passed in Florence, Italy while vacationing in...

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