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December 2022

December 19, 2022
Below are five books your pastor should be reading with your church community. I don't...
December 14, 2022
Sometimes it can be hard to know where to start with our inner work. We've...
December 10, 2022
When people first encounter the phrases “embodied spirituality” or “contemplative practices,” there are usually questions....
December 08, 2022
Over the past ten years, I've tried to meditate about a billion times. Every time...
December 06, 2022
    The 2023 Centering Prayer Summit is coming up! Register before December 10th and...
December 04, 2022
A few years ago, I sat in a packed auditorium surrounded by hundreds of others...

November 2022

November 28, 2022
"Wow, there's beauty here." It’s a simple phrase, but it’s led to a massive shift...
November 21, 2022
I sat in the front row of my childhood church in what I knew to...
November 14, 2022
I wasn’t “called” to be a high school teacher. In my experience, every time that...
November 07, 2022
Here’s a simple method for questioning your inner critic. In education, there is a process...
November 01, 2022
Happy Tuesday, everyone! This is a bit of a promotional post because my new book,...

October 2022

October 24, 2022
(UPDATE: My book, Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life has now been...
October 20, 2022
  There are two paths in life I always want to keep my eyes on....
October 17, 2022
We’ve all been handed ratchets. You’ve probably used one before – a ratchet is a...
October 13, 2022
Last month I had a conversation with Agrita over at the Mind Full of Every...
October 10, 2022
We crossed into the town, exhaustion in each of our steps. This stretch of the...
October 06, 2022
I can think of a few in my personal life – the folks who I've...
October 03, 2022
When I was younger, I had several teachers who served as mentors for me -...

August 2022

August 29, 2022
As I wrote about last month, I’m heading out on the Camino de Santiago on...
August 22, 2022
(UPDATE: Unmasking the Inner Critic: Lessons for Living an Unconstricted Life is out now! Grab a...
August 18, 2022
There is something so deeply intimate about where one lays their head. It’s such a...
August 15, 2022
Read more about shadow work here. In the spiritual life, shadows represent the parts of...
August 11, 2022
If you hang around churches and church communities for long enough, you’ll almost certainly hear...
August 08, 2022
As I prepare to venture off in September on the Camino de Santiago, I've been...
August 04, 2022
We live in a society that breathes stress and anxiety. From the constant deadlines of...
August 01, 2022
So many of us don’t really know what to do with death. We’d prefer to...

July 2022

July 28, 2022
In just over a month, I'll be trekking along the Camino de Santiago. (Before we...
July 25, 2022
So much of my spirituality is connected to the teachings of the mystics and elders...
July 21, 2022
The reason, it seems to me, the mystics are rarely spoken of in church settings...
July 18, 2022
It has been a long time since the word "God," for me, referred to a...
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