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Ready?
June 10, 2026
Ready?
June 10, 2026

One of the crippling dysfunctions of a religious system gone bad…

June 10, 2026
Co-pilot.
June 3, 2026
Co-pilot.
June 3, 2026

There is one great message to your life. Do you know what it is?

June 3, 2026
Message.
May 26, 2026
Message.
May 26, 2026

There is one great message to your life. Do you know what it is?

May 26, 2026
Primitive.
May 18, 2026
Primitive.
May 18, 2026

You are good. You are safe…

May 18, 2026
Grieving.
May 12, 2026
Grieving.
May 12, 2026

Naming our sorrows helps us sense into our collective humanity…

May 12, 2026
Resilient.
April 25, 2026
Resilient.
April 25, 2026

As the French say, C’est la vie…

April 25, 2026
Third.
April 11, 2026
Third.
April 11, 2026

Reeling between political polarities…

April 11, 2026
Visceral.
April 8, 2026
Visceral.
April 8, 2026

Your feet know what to do…

April 8, 2026
Imagine.
April 3, 2026
Imagine.
April 3, 2026

“Songs of Faith” on tonight’s American Idol…

April 3, 2026
Triumph.
March 31, 2026
Triumph.
March 31, 2026

How do we hold triumph without triumphalism?…

March 31, 2026
Dying.
March 25, 2026
Dying.
March 25, 2026

We walked her dad across the threshold of death…

March 25, 2026
Judgment.
March 3, 2026
Judgment.
March 3, 2026

To judge is human, to forgive divine.…

March 3, 2026
Emptiness.
March 1, 2026
Emptiness.
March 1, 2026

Fasting sucks, but it helped me this weekend…

March 1, 2026
Attachments.
February 28, 2026
Attachments.
February 28, 2026

This is the tension and paradox of Lent…

February 28, 2026
Defaults.
February 26, 2026
Defaults.
February 26, 2026

Shed your stress default.…

February 26, 2026
Shields.
February 21, 2026
Shields.
February 21, 2026

Shedding our self-protectiveness…

February 21, 2026
Shed.
February 12, 2026
Shed.
February 12, 2026

For my birthday I bought myself a new mountain bike…

February 12, 2026
Ebb & Flow.
February 6, 2026
Ebb & Flow.
February 6, 2026

Can you feel the shift?…

February 6, 2026
Thrust.
January 29, 2026
Thrust.
January 29, 2026

Productivity is ultimately a spiritual matter.…

January 29, 2026
Paradox.
January 25, 2026
Paradox.
January 25, 2026

We are not always comfortable with divine union.…

January 25, 2026
Discerning.
January 16, 2026
Discerning.
January 16, 2026

The pressing need of the moment is for discernment…

January 16, 2026
Newer. world.
January 4, 2026
Newer. world.
January 4, 2026

‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world…

January 4, 2026
Resolved.
January 4, 2026
Resolved.
January 4, 2026

God became man so that we might become God…

January 4, 2026
Incarnatio.
December 23, 2025
Incarnatio.
December 23, 2025

You are the re-incarnation of Jesus. Yep, really.

December 23, 2025
Participation.
December 20, 2025
Participation.
December 20, 2025

Only you can do what only you can do.…

December 20, 2025
Place.
December 9, 2025
Place.
December 9, 2025

I turn 60 in a couple weeks, and I want to reclaim my place…

December 9, 2025
People.
December 3, 2025
People.
December 3, 2025

Who’s up for chastity, poverty, and obedience?!…

December 3, 2025
Home?
November 28, 2025
Home?
November 28, 2025

Christmas: hopeful and dark, soothing and frightening.…

November 28, 2025
Immersion.
November 21, 2025
Immersion.
November 21, 2025

God has been hidden in plain sight from day one!…

November 21, 2025
Misfits.
November 12, 2025
Misfits.
November 12, 2025

We aren’t made for this world, but the world needs us…

November 12, 2025

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