The Gift of Liminal Space between Vacation and Home
This past week, Henry and I took a brief few days of vacation together in Southern California. We spent time with animals at the San Diego Zoo, ate some delicious seafood, and sat on a cliff above the ocean, watching the waves roll in and out. It was good time for...
Pondering Crisis Contemplation in a Struggling World
As I’ve mentioned before, one of the gifts of my work is getting to read what I edit. A few months ago, I was privileged to support the work of the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes by editing her latest book, Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village, which has just...
Revisioning Experience in the Spiritual Tricycle
Recently I listened to Richard Rohr talk in a webinar about the three wheels of the spiritual “tricycle”: Experience, Scripture, and Tradition (which he discusses in his book The Universal Christ). He spoke of how, historically, Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches...
Caring for the Caregivers
One of the gifts in my life is my spiritual directors’ peer supervision group. We meet monthly to support each other in our ministries of spiritual guidance. Last week, I “presented myself” in relation to a situation that arose in a recent spiritual guidance session....
Faithful Nurturing of the Easter Message
Summer vegetable seeds are beginning to sprout in my garden. Days of patient waiting for eruptions of bright green from the midst of dark, nurturing soil are now being rewarded. I anticipate summer’s fruitfulness, but we have a long way to go. Between now and first...
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