Embodying Jesus’ Social Order and Prophetic Way – Aug. 26, 2022
“We need a spirituality and practice that encompasses the full scope of our richly embodied Christian tradition and biblical theology, one that is holistic and strong enough not only to hold us up and help us cope as individuals in these difficult times, but also, by faith, to embody Jesus’ alternative social order and prophetic […]
Desire for Emptiness – June 1, 2022
“All I bring to the darkness each night is what the Cloud author calls a “naked intent,” a wish to be empty and still in the presence of that for which I have no name. The author of the Cloud says that if you find this unexplainable desire welling up within you, simply wanting time without speech with one […]
Heavy – May 23, 2022
That timeI thought I could notgo any closer to griefwithout dying I went closer,and I did not die.Surely Godhad his hand in this, as well as friends.Still, I was bent,and my laughter,as the poet said, was nowhere to be found.Then said my friend Daniel(brave even among lions),“It is not the weight you carry but how […]
Solitude – Feb. 16, 2022
“Solitude is not a practice just for ourselves but a practice to cultivate within each of us a greater capacity for living in communion with the world. In solitude we are able to listen more intimately for the whispers of the divine alive in each moment.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening, p. 107
