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December 2014

December 22, 2014

Limping Into the New Year — A Christmas Diagnosis

I am limping out of 2014 and into 2015. One week ago today, I had...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Who’s Got It Goin’ On? The Gravity Center, That’s Who!

Rob Bell gets me traffic. So does Mark Driscoll. So does any controversy, whether I...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

Sacred Texts After the Apocalypse

Today, I've finished teaching the third in a three-year cycle of classes for a Doctor...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

Richard Rohr on Incarnational Christianity

Years ago, I proposed that those of us looking for an alternative to the labels...

April 2013

April 30, 2013

What Is Faith? [Questions That Haunt]

In case you missed it over the weekend (since I missed my Friday deadline), on...

March 2013

March 06, 2013

The Spirituality of Gardening [Christine Sine]

I'm taking a week away from the blog, and I've asked some of my friends...

December 2012

December 07, 2012

Roxy on Advent

I've been working on an answer to Rob's question about whether he's a Christian or...

December 03, 2012

Benefit of the Doubt: A Christian Virtue

I'm not going to blog any more about what happened around here last week, at...

October 2012

October 13, 2012

Everyday Spirituality: Returning To Our Senses

This post is part of an ongoing series on Everyday Spirituality. Today's post is...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

I Don’t Hear God Either [Questions That Haunt]

This week's Question That Haunts Christianity, Andrew challenged us with a question not so much...

September 25, 2012

Why Do I Not Experience God? [Questions That Haunt]

A little different tack in this week's Questions That Haunt Christianity. Rather than a theological...

August 2012

August 02, 2012

Everyday Spirituality: Gardening

Part of an ongoing series on Everyday Spirituality. And the Lord God planted a garden in...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Everyday Spirituality: Cloudy Water

photo courtesy of ImaginationsisPart of an ongoing series on Everyday Spirituality, this is a guest...

July 26, 2012

Everyday Spirituality: Baking Bread

Part of an ongoing series on Everyday Spirituality. He told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of...

July 20, 2012

Everyday Spirituality: Coaching Little League

Part of an ongoing series on Everyday Spirituality. For the last several summers, I've coached...

July 16, 2012

Everyday Spirituality: A New Series

A few years ago, I wrote a book that carries the subtitle, Spiritual Practices for...

June 2012

June 08, 2012

There Are No Thin Places

Thin Places - Chapter 2: Submerging from The House Studio on Vimeo. So, I said...

May 2012

May 16, 2012

Thinking About God’s Creation

I'm thinking and reading a lot about creation right now, in preparation for year two...

May 07, 2012

A Letter to your Twenty-Something Self

Mark Scandrette has written a letter to himself twenty years ago: Twenty something self, I speak...

April 2012

April 01, 2012

Journey from Palm Sunday to Easter

With this video art by Debbie Topliff: From Palm Sunday to Easter from debby topliff...

March 2012

March 31, 2012

Awaken Yourself…To a Free Book!

This post is part of the Patheos Book Club. Check out the Book Club for...

March 30, 2012

C’Mon, Squirt a Few

At Duke's Call and Response blog, Scott Benhase ties The Great Santini, one of the...

March 30, 2012

A Better Atonement: Your Turn

We're on the brink of Holy Week. I have been absolutely heartened at the robust...

March 26, 2012

Stop Praying In Church

Aloud, that is. That's my contribution to the Pomomusings series, "(Re)Imaging Chrisitianity: This post is...

March 24, 2012

Follow the Way of the Cross During Lent

Here's a great online site for making the Stations of the Cross online. Read the...

March 12, 2012

Lenten Meditations

This week, The 40 Day Journey, a Lenten video blog by Patheos, will feature a...

March 05, 2012

Finding Hope in Prayer #WhyPray

So, I think I'm turning the corner. I think I'm finding a reason to pray....

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Taking Prayer Beyond Cause and Effect (#WhyPray)

I'm hard at work on a book about prayer. I'm trying to establish a reasonable,...

February 24, 2012

A Beautiful Lent

One thing that I cannot recommend highly enough is that you journey through Lent with...

February 14, 2012

Lauren Winner on Doubt, Prayer, and the Eucharist [VIDEO]

In part two of my interview with Lauren Winner about her book, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith...