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March 2026

March 09, 2026

What a Social Media Detox Did For My Nervous System and Soul

Almost a month ago, I decided for this year’s Lent to dive into Spanish practice...

February 2026

February 16, 2026

A Different Kind of Lent: Mindfulness, Spanish, and Silence

Lost in Translation: My Spanish Misadventures For some time, I’ve had good intentions to practice...

April 2025

April 04, 2025

When Home is a Person and They’re No Longer Around

Recently, a friend offered me a book she'd found at Goodwill. It is my memoir,...

March 2025

March 24, 2025

We Are Now in Autocracy—What Will Bring The Turning?

Autocracy. noun. 1. Government by a single person having unlimited power; despotism. When I visit...

March 17, 2025

What To Do With Righteous Anger: A Meditation for Lent

Have you experienced a loss or misfortune and someone suggested it happened to you because...

March 20, 2024

How Stories Change Us: A Palm Sunday Reflection

A courageous woman dousing a man’s head with perfume; a conniving betrayer; a feast; jealous...

March 13, 2024

Revelation Beyond the Pages: The Divine in the Everyday

What is revelation? My definition broadens almost by the day. Sometimes I hear measures of...

March 05, 2024

Seeing the Beauty in Small Congregations

Serving threshold congregations is my subject today. By this, I mean small congregations on the...

February 2024

February 19, 2024

When Forgiveness is Slow: A Story for Lent

Forgiveness is slow. Have you tried to forgive someone who devastated you with no real...

February 13, 2024

How an Alternative Practice of Lent Inspires

A few years ago, I created a practice that brought Lent to life for me—a...

April 2023

April 05, 2023

When You Walk Slowly: The ‘Wolf at my Door’ Series

{For the beginning of this series, click HERE} A Buddhist friend once shared a technique...

March 2023

March 21, 2023

‘God is in the Obstacle’: Hope in struggle

There is something archaeological about moving—the artifacts of past lives and forgotten experiences we unearth,...

March 14, 2023

Even the Right Path can lead through Darkness

“The psalmist doesn't try to explain evil. He doesn't try to minimize evil. He simply...

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Acceptance Lets Us Speak Truth in Love

I keep stumbling upon the necessity of social connection. In news stories on children’s mental...

December 2022

December 20, 2022

Trance: On shared singing and other diversions

I snatch some fabric from the scrap heap, holding it up to the improv...

July 2022

July 11, 2022

Nothing is beyond transformation: Getting to work restoring hope

Talk about an obscure reading! [Luke 13:1-9; lectionary from week this essay was originally published.] On...

July 11, 2022

Going into the roots: Letting an alternative practice of Lent change you

A few years ago, I created a practice that brought Lent to life for me—a...

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