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February 2018

February 03, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Paying Attention and Reflecting

Paying Attention and Reflecting What spiritual disciplines do we practice? Which of the ways we...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Peeling Away the Noise and Confusion

Peeling Away the Noise and Confusion It can be a challenge for us to find a...

January 27, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Living Everyday Spiritual Life

Living Everyday Spiritual Life It is easy for us to assume spiritual life is for...

January 25, 2018

Leading Like a Monk: Carrying the Weight of Responsibility

Carrying the Weight of Responsibility Leaders have a lot of responsibilities. We may not want to...

January 23, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Why is Stillness So Sacred?

Why is Stillness So Sacred? My experience teaches me there is a deep and powerful...

January 20, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: What Are We Trying to Find?

What Are We Trying to Find? The reasons people become interested in spiritual life are...

January 18, 2018

Leading Like a Monk: What We Gain When We Lose

What We Gain When We Lose Is it even possible? How can we gain when...

January 16, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Hearing the Voices in the Silence

Hearing the Voices in the Silence It is easy for us to become entangled in all the...

January 13, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: How Will We Worship Today?

Will We Worship Today? Most of us do not think we spend much time worshipping...

January 11, 2018

Leading Like a Monk: Embracing Our Own Imperfection

Embracing Our Own Imperfection Andrea Sanchez's hourlong #DareToBe conversation on Tuesday got me thinking. Our conversation...

January 09, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Unexpected Depths of Stillness

Unexpected Depths of Stillness It seems like most days we are not expecting to find depths...

January 06, 2018

Practices From the Inside Out: Staying in Bed to Read Books

Staying in Bed to Read Books The spiritual discipline I have practiced the longest might...

January 04, 2018

Leading Like a Monk: Starting From a Strong Foundation

Starting From a Strong Foundation It is the first week of the year. Some of us...

January 02, 2018

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Plumbing the Depth of the Present

Plumbing the Depth of the Present Many of us tend to overlook the depth of...

December 2017

December 30, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: How Do We Make a Fresh Start?

How Do We Make a Fresh Start? A lot of people I know look forward...

December 28, 2017

Looking Back: 12 Questions For Deeper Reflection From 2017

Questions For Deeper Reflection It can be helpful to look back over the past twelve...

December 26, 2017

Listening to Sacred Stillness: The Week at the End of the Year

The Week at the End of the Year This is it. The final week of...

December 23, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: What is Christmas All About?

What is Christmas All About? For some of us, Christmas is all about making money....

December 21, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Following Scrooge’s Example

Following Scrooge's Example For some reason, Ebenezer Scrooge has been on my mind lately. It...

December 19, 2017

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Finding Stillness in Everyday Life

Finding Stillness in Everyday Life What? Is this some kind of joke? My everyday life is...

December 16, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Head Toward the Light

Head Toward the Light Where I live we are still heading into deeper darkness. Our...

December 14, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Holding Fast and Standing Firm

Holding Fast and Standing Firm Many of us like to think leaders need to be...

December 12, 2017

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Finding the Stillness in the Present Moment

Finding Stillness in the Present Moment We spend our lives running as fast as we...

December 09, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Bringing Fire to the Earth

Bringing Fire to the Earth This has been a week of bringing fire to the...

December 07, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Can Monks Help Us Become Stronger Leaders?

Leading Like a Monk? Leading like a monk may not be the first example of...

December 05, 2017

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Hearing the Suffering in the Silence

The Suffering in the Silence As we listen to sacred stillness we hear the suffering...

December 02, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: What is Advent All About?

What is Advent All About? It could all be because we are afraid of the...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Becoming More Than We Thought We Could Be

More Than We Thought We Could Be We like to believe the leadership mythology we...

November 28, 2017

Listening to Sacred Stillness: Diving Into Deeper Stillness

Diving Into Deeper Stillness It can feel tempting to spend our time skimming across the surface...

November 25, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Building Our Own Spiritual Life

Building Our Own Spiritual Life We went out for pizza the other day and immediately...