What does it mean for life to be labyrinthine? Perhaps that the path is both perplexing and adventurous…
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Advent 4. John describes a highly sensual encounter with the Beloved…
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Advent 3. Long before Kellie and I moved to the North Carolina mountains…
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Explore letting go, encountering the divine, and reconnecting with love…in the labyrinth.
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Advent 2. This afternoon I tried several things, only to be foiled in each. Sometimes darkness feels like powerlessness…
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Advent 1. In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone.…
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What’s the connection between Babel and Pentecost? Here’s a clue: It has to do with unitive consciousness…
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Kellie and I are now happily up to our eyeballs in research for our doctoral programs, and my particular focus is The Evangelical Exodus…
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I have always felt a little envious of people who grew up on a family homestead and then stayed to make their own home…
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Perhaps you’ve heard the story of ants on an elephant, each trying to describe the nature of the beast…
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Falling. It’s not a good feeling. Falling usually involves pain. We have nightmares about it. It’s so out of control, so frightening, so powerless…
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Who is the wisest person you know? The person who, seemingly without effort, emanates a loving, grounded presence…
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Weekend before last I sat at the bedside of someone dear to me who is on her final leg of the journey…
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In December 2018, my husband told me he wanted a divorce and asked me to leave the marital home. Within two hours…
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2 Corinthians 13:14 contains a blessing that speaks directly to our desire to be embraced by the Trinity.…
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This week Kellie and I took a hard look at just what we can and can’t offer from The Vining Center while we’re in our doctoral programs.…
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September is the time of new beginnings. The air is getting crisp, the days are getting shorter, and kids start back to school…
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It’s Jesus’ actual view of money itself that I wonder if we even hear, or if it’s been completely filtered out by our cultural values…
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