Fasting as Training – Aug. 18, 2020
“A fast is not about penitence and beating up on yourself. That’s a very medieval attitude that totally distorts the meaning of fasting. A fast is really training—exactly like athletic training—so that our whole embodied being can be tuned up to support a spiritual aim we wish to achieve.” –Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus, pg. […]
At Home in the World – July 15, 2020
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.” ―Wendell Berry, The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky’s […]
A Spiritual People – Feb. 4, 2020
“We didn’t have a religion. We were a spiritual people.” –Oglala Lakota Elder Liz Little
Past the Provable – May 31, 2019
“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves. In what is probably the most serious inquiry of my life, I have begun to look past reason, past the provable, in other directions. Now I think there is only one subject worth my attention and […]
