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June 09, 2025

Seeing the Beauty in Small Congregations

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

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May 05, 2025

Simple Pleasures: On Finding Happiness Where We Can

Today in my car, I played Kate Rusby’s ‘Hourglass,’ which I hadn’t heard in ages,...

April 2025

April 23, 2025

Trust Over Creed: Are ‘Correct Beliefs’ What We Really Need?

On the surface, this week’s lectionary reading at the end of John (John 20:19-31) is...

April 14, 2025

Wholeness Comes First: Compassion for Immigrants

So many words could describe the current administration’s actions. Among the most salient might be...

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...

February 2025

February 09, 2025

Active Engagement: Doing the Stuff Taught in Civics Class

Last Wednesday, I woke to discover a protest was taking place at noon in the...

January 2025

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...

November 2024

November 12, 2024

Choosing to Pray Without Worrying About the Form

For many, it has been a hard week. We all must seek deep solace now...

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...

October 14, 2024

How Authenticity Awakens Wonder: Living Lives that “Fit”

Recently while watching the film Supernova, I heard this quote: “We will not starve for...

September 2024

September 24, 2024

Seeking Freedom in the Practice of Detachment

As I approach accompanied by crickets, the sky’s palette ranges from turquoise to dark violet;...

September 11, 2024

The Gift of Regret: Experiencing Life-Transforming Grace

I recently heard a Vox podcast about regret. The interviewee, Daniel Pink, wrote a book...

August 2024

August 27, 2024

When I Encountered the Spirit of a Loved One

Roughly seven years ago; late-summer day under a New Mexico sky, the blue of which...

August 06, 2024

A Morality Play for Our Times? Murdochs, Succession, & Grace

If you have yet to dip your toes into Succession, the HBO series that ended...

April 2024

April 29, 2024

9 Ways Humans Can Know God

To what extent can humans know and understand God? a reader asks. In answering, I...

April 08, 2024

Living in Hope of Renewal: On Arendt and Easter Season

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope...

March 2024

March 27, 2024

Finding Community Amid Shared Fragility

In the early days of the pandemic, I published an article in a small literary...

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...

February 06, 2024

How God’s Presence is Incarnated Among Us

“Many things occur between God and [humans] which escape the attention even of those to...

September 2023

September 29, 2023

When I Encountered the Spirit of a Loved One

Roughly seven years ago; late-summer day under a New Mexico sky, the blue of which...

August 2023

August 23, 2023

When Joy is a Field of Wildflowers: Adopting a Perspective of Abundance

Over half of my life I operated not from a perspective of abundance but scarcity....

July 2023

July 26, 2023

How Stories Use What You Already Know

Let me tell you a little parable. The kingdom of God is like this: A...

April 2023

April 26, 2023

How Trust Transforms Where Fear Cannot

On the farm where I live, we have several animals—cows, chickens, turkeys. But foremost in...

July 2022

July 11, 2022

The Gift of Regret: Experiencing life-transforming grace

I recently heard a Vox podcast about regret. The interviewee, Daniel Pink, wrote a book...

July 11, 2022

Loved into Fullness of Being: We become whole not despite mistakes, but through them

I am moved by the story in Luke 22:14-23:56 [lectionary during week this essay was originally...

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