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Bless this Mess - Finally, A Must-Read Book about Progressive,...

The recent book Bless this Mess, the fruit of a team-up between pastor Molly Baskette and developmental psychologist Ellen O’Donnell, is a gold mine of spiritual wisdom, digestible psychological... read more

9/2/2019 9:48:31 AM by Mark Longhurst

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What is Your Hurry?

You’re so busy with schedules to keep and deadlines to meet. You measure time and the quality of your life in the number of years you have left down to the very second of your existence. What is... read more

8/30/2019 11:28:11 PM by Paul Bane

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Prayer and Orgasm Have More in Common Than You Think (Guest...

I can’t remember the first time it happened in prayer. But I remember the first conversation I tried to have about it. “My prayer has been… I mean, it’s been wonderful.” My eyes sparkled, but I... read more

8/29/2019 8:28:02 PM by Mark Longhurst

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There is a Battle for Your Mind

There is one consistent truth in prayer and meditating on my word. There is a battle for your mind. Even though you seek me with your whole heart, your thoughts are going to wander off from keeping... read more

8/26/2019 11:25:13 PM by Paul Bane

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Hildegard of Bingen and Jesus on Living a Green Life

Hildegard of Bingen is, to use one writer’s phrase (William Harmless), a mystical multimedia artist. She wrote, lived, preached and practiced natural healing, composed music, wrote a morality play,... read more

8/21/2019 8:01:40 PM by Mark Longhurst

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Crucifixion of the Earth

The other day I went for a walk along a high bluff overlooking the Fraser River. I stumbled upon a pioneer cemetery that included several graves of indigenous people and priests from the missionary... read more

8/19/2019 3:15:50 PM by Jason M. Brown

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Terra Nullius: The Political Ecology of Green Space

“Why is everything in the woods with you people?” –Cruella Deville, Once Upon a Time, Season 5, Episode 19 For all the photographs I take and writing I do about trees, forests, theology and walking,... read more

8/19/2019 2:59:03 PM by Jason M. Brown

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Mass Grave

[In June, I started working part time at a Funeral Home. One of my tasks was to arrange all the cremated remains that have been left behind over time. It was baffling. Over 500 since the 1950s. I... read more

8/19/2019 2:19:47 PM by Jason M. Brown

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Hymn to the Cosmic Christ (Why Christ is Not Jesus's Last Name)

Christ is not Jesus’s last name, as Richard Rohr says so powerfully in his latest book The Universal Christ. Jesus’s last name would have likely been, following the custom, Jesus bar Joseph as in,... read more

8/14/2019 2:41:32 PM by Mark Longhurst

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What Should I Do?

There are times when you barely have a clue to what should I do? You ask yourself, should I quit my job, or should I end a lifelong relationship? Tough decisions that negatively impact your... read more

8/7/2019 11:07:24 PM by Paul Bane

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Marianne Williamson: A Mystic-Activist for President?

Marianne Williamson’s focus on love, and her new book "The Politics of Love," make her the anti-Trump candidate in a showdown of love and fear. I am impressed by her presence in the debates—and yet... read more

8/5/2019 4:25:23 PM by Mark Longhurst

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The Desire of the Ages

I am the desire of the ages. Once setting foot on the moon, humanity continues to explore, reaching to unlock an ever eluding purpose for life in the distant stars. St. Augustine, a mere mortal,... read more

8/1/2019 9:30:28 PM by Paul Bane

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The Contemplative and Active Lives are One

The Busy Trap has snagged many readers, I’m sure. I know it has snagged me. We wear our busyness as a way of boasting to the world that we are significant and that we matter. Writer Tim Kreider... read more

7/29/2019 6:12:31 PM by Mark Longhurst

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