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June 2017

June 29, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Setting Our Internal Clocks

Setting Our Internal Clocks We live in a culture which wants to set our internal...

June 27, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: When Spiritual Life Feels Far Away

When Spiritual Life Feels Far Away Some of us like to believe spiritual life is...

June 24, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Spiritual Life of Summer

Spiritual Life of Summer Welcome to the first weekend of summer! How is summer going...

June 22, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Breathing In and Breathing Out

Breathing In and Breathing Out Monks inspire me to remember, in the words of Benedict's...

June 20, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Spiritual Life Is Not a Spectator Sport

Spiritual life can feel a lot like sports. People have their team loyalties. They gather...

June 17, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Spiritual Life is Like Ice Cream

Spiritual Life is Like Ice Cream I have had a passion for ice cream my...

June 15, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: How Do Monks Communicate?

How Do Monks Communicate? The monks in the monastic community where I am an oblate...

June 13, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Does Spiritual Life Really Matter?

Does Spiritual Life Really Matter? I know people who have never really thought much about...

June 10, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Landscaping Our Spiritual Lives

Landscaping Our Spiritual Lives Some people use the analogy of a garden to describe spiritual...

June 08, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Drawing Strength From Our History

Drawing Strength From Our History There are people who, when given leadership responsibility, seem to...

June 06, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: The Pleasures of Spiritual Life

The Pleasures of Spiritual Life We live in a world where spiritual life is often...

June 03, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Something Bigger Than We Are

Everyone is Searching for Something Some of us are looking for respect, or happiness, or...

June 01, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Making Friends With Our Frustrations

Making Friends With Our Frustrations We become frustrated, particularly when we expect ourselves to do well...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: Breaking Through Our Boundaries

Breaking Through Our Boundaries We are taught to recognize and respect our own boundaries as well...

May 27, 2017

Practices From the Inside Out: How and Why Do We Pray?

How and Why Do We Pray? The churches where I spent time as a child had some...

May 25, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Transcending the Rest of the World

Transcending the Rest of the World We may think people drawn to monastic life are trying...

May 23, 2017

Practice From the Inside Out: How Healthy Is Our Spiritual Life?

How Healthy is Our Spiritual Life? There are people who see spiritual life pretty much the...

May 20, 2017

Practice From the Inside Out: Spiritual Life on the Freeway

Spiritual Life on the Freeway Driving on a freeway reminds me of how we live...

May 18, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Monastic Life and Working Life

Monastic Life and Working Life Many of us think of monasteries as places where we...

May 16, 2017

Practice From the Inside Out: A Long Way From Home

There are days when it just feels like we are a long way from home....

May 13, 2017

Practice From the Inside Out: Holding On by Letting Go

Holding On by Letting Go There is an assumption back in the depths of our...

May 11, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Monastic Leadership Creation

Monastic Leadership Creation I appreciate working with creative people, even when I might not be...

May 09, 2017

Practice From the Inside Out: Spring Cleaning for Spiritual Life

Spring Cleaning We tend to accumulate stuff. There are seasonally-specific things we only use once...

May 06, 2017

Practicing From the Inside Out: Balancing Our Working Life

Workaholic I have an unhealthy relationship to work. For as long as I can remember,...

May 04, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Mindfulness in the Present Moment

Past, Present, and Future Many people see monks as historical figures, people out of the past....

May 02, 2017

Practicing From the Inside Out: The Intricate Simplicity of Spiritual Life

Complicated Lives We experience our lives as extremely complicated and getting more so every day. Connected to people...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Practicing From the Inside Out: Is Church Just for Old People?

Is Church Just for Old People? Churches often seem to be a lot like museums....

April 27, 2017

Leading Like a Monk: Becoming Friends With Ourselves

Are We Friends With Ourselves? We have people live in constrained cells and limit the time...

April 25, 2017

Practicing from the Inside Out: Finding the Freedom of Spiritual Life

We do not like to feel constrained. Straining against what holds us back, what stops...

April 22, 2017

Spiritual Practices from the Inside Out: The Spiritual Life of Earth

The Spiritual Life of Earth Everything we, and everyone we know, has ever tasted or...