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March 2016

March 23, 2016
I hope you have had a wonderful and prayerful Lent, and that your Holy Week...
March 23, 2016
I hope you have had a wonderful and prayerful Lent, and that your Holy Week...
March 22, 2016
Many years ago, when God was a boy and I was an Episcopalian, I heard...
March 16, 2016
A post on this blog received the following comment yesterday: Having been with the Catholic...
March 10, 2016
Did you know that when Pope Francis was a little boy, he wanted to be...
March 09, 2016
A friend of mine posed the following question recently on Facebook: You may have written...
March 04, 2016
"Silence is where we speak something deeper than our words..." "Silence returns us to what...
March 02, 2016
I once heard Richard Rohr tell a charming story of giving a retreat at the...
March 01, 2016
As part of the Patheos Book Club, I've recently read Operating on Faith: A Painfully...

February 2016

February 29, 2016
February 29 is the feast day of St. John Cassian — who, in addition to...
February 25, 2016
Norman Wirzba, who teaches Christian theology at Duke Divinity School, has written a sobering article...
February 24, 2016
I talk a lot about silent prayer in this blog, which is understandable considering that...
February 17, 2016
Silent prayer — contemplative prayer, what the Catholic Catechism calls "wordless prayer in which mind...
February 12, 2016
A couple of years ago, Bart Ehrman's book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a...
February 10, 2016
I would love to attend the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin next month —...
February 03, 2016
Okay: to summarize... Spirituality: the process of being in relationship with God. Belief and Wonder:...

January 2016

January 28, 2016
As a blogger, I tend to avoid politics like it's radioactive. Not because I don't have...
January 27, 2016
The Christian faith stands on the recognition that God is Love. Therefore, love is the heart...
January 22, 2016
Tibetan Buddhists have a series of spiritual exercises that are seen as foundational to their spiritual...
January 20, 2016
Is contemplation dangerous? Some people think so. This past weekend I read a book that...
January 13, 2016
One of my favorite passages in the New Testament is the hymn found in Philippians...
January 12, 2016
One of the perks of being a Patheos blogger is the opportunity to review books...
January 08, 2016
A reader of this blog named Chris writes: I have been studying the German medieval...
January 06, 2016
Everyone knows that monks devote their lives to silence, but also to daily prayer and...
January 01, 2016
A reader of my blog named Paul emailed me the following question: I realize this...

December 2015

December 30, 2015
I've been reading Bill Bryson's charming and delightful book on the English language, The Mother...
December 27, 2015
Last week I wrote about the difference between how Catholics understand meditation and contemplation, based...
December 23, 2015
Advent is almost over. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and the season of Christmas begin the day...
December 18, 2015
A reader of my blog wrote to me and asked this question: What do you...
December 16, 2015
Spirituality is all about love, and love only exists in relationship. Therefore, spirituality is healthiest...
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