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December 2022

December 22, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Happy Contemplative Birthday to You

Happy Contemplative Birthday to You Today is my birthday. Yes, three days before Christmas. Happy...

December 13, 2022

Monastic Strategies: Contemplative Christmas Eve

Contemplative Christmas Eve This uniquely challenging year gives many of us an opportunity to practice...

November 2022

November 26, 2022

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

What is Advent All About? I belong to a liturgical church. Each year we ask...

November 17, 2022

Practices From the inside Out: What is Thanksgiving All About?

What is Thanksgiving All About? We are one week away from Thanksgiving Day, 2022. What...

November 08, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Voting as a Form of Prayer

Voting as a Form of Prayer Some of us have a difficult time thinking about...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Choosing Our Spiritual Life Costumes

Choosing Our Spiritual Life Costumes Some of us are busy finding costumes for this weekend....

October 20, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: The Holidays at the End of the Year

The Holidays at the End of the Year It is happening again. The push is...

October 04, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Celebrating Harvest

Celebrating Harvest I grew up celebrating harvest, but I did not grow up where I...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Welcoming Autumn

Welcoming Autumn In my memories welcoming autumn is filled with sacred significance. Now I live...

September 06, 2022

Practices For Each Day, Week, Month & Year

Practices Each Day, Week, Month & Year It is easy for us to fall into...

August 2022

August 11, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Where Do We Worship?

When Do We Worship? Many of us do not think we spend much time paying...

July 2022

July 28, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Paying Unfocused Attention

Paying Unfocused Attention Focus is one of my strengths. Concentrating is not usually difficult for...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Celebrating Our Revolutionary Independence

Celebrating Our Revolutionary Independence Monday is the anniversary of the day 246 years ago when...

June 23, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: How Are We Practicing Summer This Year?

How Are We Practicing Summer? Many of us have begun to understand summer in new...

May 2022

May 24, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: A Week to Remember

A Week to Remember This is a week for remembering and reflecting on how we...

May 11, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: What is Your Super Power?

What is Your Super Power? Which of our abilities makes us super heroes? What is...

April 2022

April 16, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: The Great Vigil of Easter

The Great Vigil of Easter I belong to a liturgical church. It is not enough...

March 2022

March 22, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Are We Having a Good Lent?

Are We Having a Good Lent? We are almost two weeks into the liturgical season...

March 03, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: Practicing Lent as Contemplatives

Practicing Lent as Contemplatives I am a member of a church where one liturgical season...

February 2022

February 01, 2022

Practices From the Inside Out: A Writing Practice for Lent

A Writing Practice for Lent Lent is a liturgical season which, for many of us,...

January 2022

January 06, 2022

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

What is Epiphany All About? Sometimes it seems like spiritual life is all about waiting...

December 2021

December 21, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: Celebrating the Winter Solstice

Celebrating the Winter Solstice Many of us are afraid of darkness. We feel darkness growing...

December 02, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: Advent Lessons & Carols

Advent Lessons & Carols Each year, our liturgical church has a special service of Advent...

November 2021

November 23, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: Contemplative Thanksgiving

Exploring Contemplative Thanksgiving Can we have a contemplative Thanksgiving? Is Thanksgiving even still its own...

November 18, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: Taking a Holiday From the Holidays

Are Our Holidays Happy? Happy Holidays! How often have we already heard someone wish us...

November 02, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: November Can Be a Contemplative Month

November Can Be a Contemplative Month November can be a particularly contemplative month. It begins...

October 2021

October 12, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: Spiritual Life is Not For Sale

Spiritual Life is Not For Sale The pandemic has taught us, or helped us remember,...

September 2021

September 16, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: A Day of Atonement

A Day of Atonement Judaism is not the primary religious background which has shaped me....

August 2021

August 24, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: Reading As a Spiritual Practice

Reading As a Spiritual Practice A healthy spiritual practice of reading is more than simply...

August 19, 2021

Practices From the Inside Out: Does God Love Us?

Does God Love Us? We live in a time of war, famine, pestilence, death, and...