Spiritual Practices: Writing
This week, I spoke to a spiritual direction student about spiritual practices, sometimes called spiritual disciplines. When speaking to folks familiar with spiritual disciples, the first things that come to […]
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The Spirituality of Travel
We don’t often realize it, but Jesus traveled a lot. He was always on the move in the Gospels, from Jerusalem to Galilee to Samaria to Nazareth. He traveled places […]
Mindfulness and Ministry: Cognitive Based Compassion Training
I’m re-doing my CPE. That’s right. I did it already: not just one unit, but four, and now I’m doing it again. That story will be told in a separate […]
Peace is a Practice (Book Review)
In her book Peace is a Practice, artist and musician Morgan Harper Nichols posits that finding peace is not finding a state of being but rather joining a river flowing […]
The Language of Trees
I learned a few weeks ago that trees talk to one another. They develop this network—nutrients sent and received in an underground web. When a tree is dying, it starts […]
My Not-So-Dirty Secret
I first began writing romance novels when my twins were five months old; I was hooked up to the good old Medela breast pump and hunched over the laptop. I’d […]
Healing and Hope: Carol Howard Merritt’s Healing Spiritual Wounds
Unlike Carol Howard Merritt, I grew up in a small, progressive American Baptist congregation. In my church life, I grew up in a place that invited questions, encouraged me to […]
Stumbling Towards Bethlehem
“While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid […]
Faith, Interrupted.
The widow of Zarephath had no oil or bread but she did as Elijah said, and was able to feed Elijah, herself and her son until the rain returned. (Summarized […]
A Spirituality of Exhaustion
by Lara Blackwood Pickrel This summer has been no different than any of the other summers experienced in the decade I’ve spent as a youth minister: campfire smoke, bug spray, […]
