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February 10, 2017
Uselessness: Where Suffering and Beauty Meet
I've never been good at beauty. Yes, of course I can in some sense understand...
February 08, 2017
A Poetic Hope
“I don’t care to wake up in the morning without hope. Hope is a survival...
January 2017
January 06, 2017
The Assurance of Winter
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And...
November 2016
November 22, 2016
Redwoods, Give Me A Word
The towering redwoods of northern California have always mystified me. I'm constantly swept away with...
November 19, 2016
Rescuing Small and Huddling Things from Adversarial Protectiveness
I can't remember precisely what his answer was, but it was not the enthusiastic one...
September 2016
September 06, 2016
The Voice of the Heart
Listening to the voice of my heart has never come easy for me. I'm usually...
September 01, 2016
Discovering Humanity Through Whispered Poetry in an Age of Rhetorical Explosives
Flannery O’Connor once said in justification of her fiction that, in a deaf culture, one...
August 2016
August 27, 2016
Seeking Identity
This post is part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity: Identity and its Discontents." ...
August 22, 2016
Coming Soon!
When I was approached by the Patheos Catholic channel editors to create a contemplative blogging...
July 2016
July 14, 2016
The Sacredness of Now
The bells began to ring just outside my window for Vigils, 3:15 am prayer, and...
July 12, 2016
Reflections on Grief and Compassion Overload
Exhausted. Spent. So weary of words. There are those who seem able to contain it,...
July 06, 2016
St. Maria Goretti and the Forgiveness of Rapists
It is the feast of St. Maria Goretti, who on this day 114 years ago...
June 2016
June 29, 2016
Curing the Hungry, Feeding the Sick: Caring For Your Mentally Ill Friends, Part II
Let us imagine a feast. And let us imagine someone too mentally ill to...
May 2016
May 24, 2016
How to Offer Spiritual Care to Your Mentally Ill Friends: Part I
Loneliness. I think above all, this is the single word I want you to remember...
May 21, 2016
The Desert Mirage
In 2012 I began traveling to monasteries for respite, silence, solitude, and space. I started...
May 20, 2016
Healing Prayer as Penance
“Spend 10 or 15 minutes praying for healing.” It doesn’t sound much like penance. Unless...
May 14, 2016
Revelation 21: 5
It starts in a room of silence. A room where disciples are gathered together in...
May 12, 2016
Redeeming Time With The Liturgical Hours
“Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise, but as wise, making...
May 05, 2016
And the Truth Shall Make You Huge: Trumpian Nihilism in an Age of Apathetic Narcissism
I generally don’t discuss politics. Not because they aren’t important, and not because I don’t...
May 03, 2016
A Pill for Contemplative Spirituality?
“Is there a pill I can take for that?” said my eight year old son,...
April 2016
April 28, 2016
A Mirror Held Up to Mystery: Eros, Sex, Censorship, and the Song of Solomon
Sex. It’s what the Song of Solomon is about. But ancient Christian readers were prudes...
April 21, 2016
Contemplation and the Practice of Friendship: A Review of Love & Salt
And there in that land I encountered a strange race of people, to whom was...
April 14, 2016
Teach Us To Pray…But Be Gentle: Prayer and Mental Illness
So, God said to Job, everything’s over and you need to pray for your friends...
April 11, 2016
Why I Need Contemplative Spirituality
In his eminently affable and uncontroversial way, theologian Stanley Hauerwas once suggested he’s a...
March 2016
March 29, 2016
He is Not Here – He is Risen: Existential Encounters with the Emptiness of the Tomb
“He is not here.” So were their words when I came upon the tomb and...
March 25, 2016
Rent: A Poetic Reflection on Good Friday
"The watchmen that went about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me;...
March 22, 2016
Lenten Reflection VI on Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out: Three Things You Need For Prayer
In the prior Lenten post on Henri Nouwen's Reaching Out, we finally reached what is both most fundamental...
March 15, 2016
Lenten Reflection V on Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out: From Illusion to Prayer
In our journey through Henri Nouwen’s Reaching Out, we have discussed the transition from loneliness...
March 08, 2016
Tuesday Lenten Reflection IV, Reaching Out Amidst Betrayal: Why Christians Stay
“This is the what makes Christians walk away.” I was talking to a...
March 01, 2016
Reaching Out in Lent, Part III: Hostility, Hospitality, and a Spirituality for the Academic Job Market
“A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building...
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