I talk frequently about the spirituality of being on time, and a lot of the feedback I get is about how eye-opening it is to realize you are bothering others. So let me focus a little more sharply on that aspect of the subject, on selfishness... Read more
My Patheos blog is only five months old, so a "Best of 2012" would be a bit much, but I've done exactly 100 posts, which is a good reason to pause a moment and look back. Read more
For Epiphany, a retelling of the magi story from the perspective of the magi. Read more
My latest reflection in Living Faith: Jesus said, "Come, and you will see." If a stranger comes and sees how you live, will they be attracted? Will they see a life based in love? Read the rest... Read more
I haven't been doing my exercise, but does that mean I'm a bad person? Does it mean I've failed? No, it means I'm human. New Year's is the biggest swearing-off ritual around. But all too often the best intentions come up against habit, craving, temptation or just fatigue, the abstainer slips, and then they feel like a failure. Sometimes the self-criticism blurs into self-hatred feeding a downward spiral that takes them to a worse place than if there had been no resolution in the first place. The missing ingredient is love... Read more
St. Augustine is credited with saying, "A person who sings prays twice." Beautiful music itself is prayer, and when wedded to words of praise the result is a foretaste of the new Earth to come... Read more
There is a New Year's lie that, just like hanging a fresh calendar on the wall, we too can start over. Make a resolution. Decide that this year will be different. Somehow reset our lives and start fresh. Us 2.0. Thinking that deciding to change and changing are the same thing. The truth is that our less positive habits, like lily pads floating on a pond, are rooted deep down in the muck... Read more
Busted Halo named my response to Jefferson Bethke's viral video "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus" one of their "Best of 2012." The conversation continues. Read more
My favorite recording of my favorite piece of music: Claudio Monteverdi's Christe Redemptor. Read more
What is the radical truth that pulls us back to the Christmas story again and again? The Christmas sermon from my pastor, Emily Scott, at St. Lydia's. Read more
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