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March 07, 2016
Of Lions and Lambs: The Ecology of Things
In a recent blog post at A Rocha, an International Christian organization that does amazing...
February 2016
February 29, 2016
Sacred Groves and Clear Cuts
In what ways does my life make more clear cuts necessary? Does my spiritual practice...
February 14, 2016
The Way: First Century Jewish Sects as Parable
when Jesus says "I am the Way" in John 14:6, perhaps we can see this...
February 10, 2016
The Seeds of Lent
For the past several months I have been on the road for my dissertation research...
February 10, 2016
Canopies
A new crescent moon chases the sun over the jagged western horizon. A canopy of...
February 03, 2016
Landscapes of Return: A Former Mormon Missionary in Catholic Dominican Republic
Returning now, 13 years later, I was less fluent in Spanish, but more fluent in...
January 2016
January 16, 2016
The Iconography of Climate Change
The God of Nature is in trouble; the Nature of God is in doubt. In...
January 10, 2016
Review: The Revenant: The Hero’s Journey and White Saviors
[Spoiler Alert] Thanks to some generous marketing people over at Patheos, I was asked to...
January 07, 2016
Thoughts on whether Christians, Jews and Muslims worship the same God
Perhaps God is not a being whose parts and passions we can compare in a...
January 01, 2016
What it Means to be a Spiritual Ecologist
For many of the rising generation, spirit is not so much a shimmery version of...
December 2015
December 24, 2015
Praying with the Elements for Advent: Christmas Eve: Spirit
Reflecting on the Infinite, we celebrate the element of Spirit; in our bodies, in our...
December 22, 2015
Dark Days Within and the Return of Light
It is a little strange to be celebrating Christmas among palm trees, Winter Solstice among...
December 20, 2015
Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 4: Air
“The universe began with a great outpouring of cosmic breath that has complexified over billions...
December 13, 2015
Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 3: Water
Needed this week: Small bowl of water Reflecting on the Infinite, we celebrate the element...
December 07, 2015
Terrorism in the Psalms
For Christians and others to criticize ISIS for a selective and toxic reading of their...
December 06, 2015
Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 2: Earth
The bread in my hand is the body of the cosmos.
December 05, 2015
Olives and Bodhisattvas: Two Religious Centers that Foster Faith through Food
Perhaps that is what draws me to spiritual ecology, or to study monastic life; the...
December 03, 2015
Worlds Less Visible
When white North Americans like myself see historic sites on the landscape, we read them...
November 2015
November 28, 2015
Praying with the Elements for Advent: Week 1: Fire
Over the next four weeks I will share one of five sections from a workshop...
November 27, 2015
Fallow Deer and Vedanta
After my long drive through the Pacific Northwest, I arrived in Point Reyes National Seashore....
November 23, 2015
Paris, the Dalai Lama and Prayer
After the Paris attacks, predictably the hastag #PrayforParis surfaced. In an interview the Dalai Lama...
November 23, 2015
The Grotto
One of my first stops on my way south was in Portland, OR to see...
November 23, 2015
A Hurried Pilgrim: Introducing Holyscapes at Patheos
This week begins about six months of PhD field work throughout the Western US, where...
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