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January 2012

January 02, 2012
Tell me, is there any January pleasure quite so cozy as retreating to the couch...

December 2011

December 31, 2011
Happy New Year to all readers of The Holy Rover! Several weeks ago I mentioned...
December 22, 2011
Today's post is my most recent column for the Episcopal News Service: On a recent...
December 21, 2011
In honor of the winter solstice, let me direct your attention to a lovely meditation...
December 15, 2011
At last we come to the end of our Maori tour of New Zealand. You...
December 13, 2011
We’re nearly at the end of our Maori tour of New Zealand. Before leaving this...
December 12, 2011
Today’s post is by Bob Sessions: One of the reasons I was excited to go...
December 09, 2011
Up to this point I’ve said very little about a central feature of traditional Maori...
December 07, 2011
Today we move to Gisborne, a community on the east coast of New Zealand’s North...
December 06, 2011
One more post about our wonderful experience with TIME Unlimited on the island of Waiheke...
December 05, 2011
Some of you have perhaps seen the beautifully carved Maori marae, or meeting house, in...
December 02, 2011
Let me show you a little video illustrating the warm, understated welcome that is traditionally...
December 01, 2011
I traveled to New Zealand to attend a meeting of the Society of American Travel...

November 2011

November 30, 2011
You probably think it’s easy being a travel writer—the trips, the food, the adventures, the...
November 25, 2011
When I've recommended a book on this blog, it's always been one that I've personally...
November 22, 2011
The Holy Rover has been largely silent for the past month, thanks to a trip...
November 01, 2011
Today is All Saints Day in the Christian liturgical calendar. In the Episcopal Church, the...

October 2011

October 20, 2011
I remember vividly the first day I spent alone with my oldest son. My husband...
October 14, 2011
We have to slow down, because we do not have much time.      ...
October 13, 2011
Amid the deluge of news coverage after Steve Jobs’ death, most interesting to me were...
October 11, 2011
Today's post is my monthly column for the Episcopal News Service (which will be familiar...
October 04, 2011
Let me end this little jaunt through prayer by telling you about a wonderful presentation...
October 03, 2011
I teased you by saying that I’d be writing today about “How to Build a...
October 01, 2011
While hundreds of studies provide evidence that spirituality can improve our physical and mental health,...

September 2011

September 30, 2011
While theologians and religious leaders have long pondered questions about prayer, it wasn’t until relatively...
September 29, 2011
I mentioned several months ago that I had an assignment to write a magazine article...
September 26, 2011
When I first met my husband, Bob, one of the things that I found most...
September 25, 2011
Today’s post is my monthly column for the Episcopal News Service, reprinted below: On a recent...
September 16, 2011
There's a certain amount of irony in the fact that while Salem's infamous reputation was...
September 15, 2011
Salem honors the memory of the Witch Trials in a variety of ways. Its most...
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