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May 2017

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 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 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 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 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...

April 18, 2017

Practicing Living Each Day Into the Potential of Tomorrow

It is easy for us to assume spiritual life is about deep, cosmic, overarching truths....

April 15, 2017

Spiritual Practices Inside Out: Light Shining in the Darkness

Light Shining in the Darkness People walking in deep darkness have seen a great light....

April 11, 2017

Spiritual Practices From the Inside Out: Following Our Sacred Path

Following Our Sacred Path There is something about a Sacred path which draws us into...

April 08, 2017

Spiritual Practices: What Makes This Such a Holy Week?

What Makes This Week So Holy? It is not that the next eight days will...

April 04, 2017

Is Spiritual Life Really Good For Us?

Does Spiritual Life Do Us Any Good? I know people who believe spiritual life is...

April 01, 2017

Inside Out Spiritual Practices: Sacred Laughing

Sacred Laughing Quite a few of the people I know assume spiritual life means we sit...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Straining to Catch a Glimpse of the Sacred

We feel we are far away from what we hold Sacred. We must strain to...

March 25, 2017

Inside Out Spiritual Practices: Hiding and Seeking

Hiding and Seeking The games we play as children shape our expectations and understanding later...

March 21, 2017

Are We Eating Healthy Meals or Empty Spiritual Calories?

How nutritious are your spiritual eating habits? Do you eat in a healthy way? Eating...

March 18, 2017

Spiritual Practices From the Inside Out: Finding Hope

Hope for Lent My church is a liturgical church, and is in a liturgical season called...

March 14, 2017

Why Practice Spiritual Life? What Are We Searching For?

Why Follow a Spiritual Practice? There are groups who follow spiritual practices together. Some people...

March 11, 2017

Spiritual Practices From the Inside Out: New Fields of Hope

Hope is not a mere feeling or attitude. Hope, like gratitude or curiosity, is a...

March 07, 2017

Making a Real Difference: Spending Our Days Wisely

Making a Real Difference There is deep spiritual power in knowing we are making a...

March 04, 2017

Spiritual Practices From the Inside Out: Discerning Hope

Hope is the spark which lights the fire of inspiration. Without hope, why would we...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, and the Season of Lent

I am a member of a church where one liturgical season ends and another begins...

February 25, 2017

Spiritual Practices From the Inside Out: Following Our Path

There are people who spend their entire lives searching for the right path. Some of...

February 21, 2017

Spiritual Life is Like Rain After a Long Drought

The spiritual story of where we live is about land and water. We may disagree...

February 18, 2017

Spiritual Practices From the Inside Out: Understanding Our Anger

We know we are not supposed to get angry, or at least not show our...

February 14, 2017

What is So Spiritual About All This?

Things were much easier when I was a child. When I was growing up, the...

February 04, 2017

Embodying Spiritual Life

Some people are convinced spiritual life is about what we think. They believe it is more...

January 2017

January 28, 2017

Practicing Hospitality

Hospitality has been woven into our story, my story, almost since the beginning. I am...