There is a crack, a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in (Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”) Every spelunker knows caverns are often...

The heart of the universe is pure love. God is love – unconditional, perfect, cruciform love. God is nice; God likes us. There is nothing...

Evil’s most potent weapon is shame. Shame says, “I am bad; I am not enough; I am wrong.” Guilt, on the other hand says, “I made a...

The Anointing of Jesus Our post-Enlightenment occidental minds are steeped in modernity and find it necessary to be individualistic,...

Two of the signs of increasing spiritual maturity are inclusivity and nonbinary thinking. The more we come to know the heart of God, the...

In his The Book of Soul, Mark Nebo relates a conversation with the Abenake elder Joseph Bruchac who shared the lesson inherent in how the...

I cannot picture you at 51 Only the living age In my mind you are forever The lanky teenager, so Brilliant, so deep, so fearless Thinking...

Stories. We all have them. But we are not our stories. We simply live inside our stories. Some people, perhaps most, mistakenly identify...

C ruciform love, love that looks like the cross, is the way of Christ. It is self-sacrificial. · “Deny yourself, take up your cross,...

Most every spring the river would flood. we were used to it, but as Greed continued to destroy the Garden, the rains came earlier and...

Some years ago, I visited a refugee camp in northern Thailand. It was more like a prison camp –barbed wire, locked gates, Quonset huts,...

“Still waters run deep” is a proverb of Latin origin that originally meant that a placid exterior may be masking a passionate interior...

I don’t understand suffering. I doubt anyone thoroughly does. I do know, however, that we have a God who created us (and a bunch of...

As a spiritual director, spiritual life coach, and pastoral counselor, I try to help wounded people by accompanying them to the Great...

The Two Fires “There are two fires that we have to encounter daily. The first is the fire of life, which reduces us to joy by burning...

Those in AA know that the holidays trigger episodes of relapse. To help hold the line, AA has a saying: “Another name for Thanksgiving is...

I was recently at a store where two kids in their 20s were talking about being managers in their company. I wondered if they were old...

Part I: What if I am the transgressor? True story: A boxer who had killed a man in the ring was burdened with fear and guilt for years....

Part II: Letting go of guilt. Anything wrong, bad, horrible we’ve ever done (or thought of doing), any evil desires or thoughts we’ve had...

Part III: Can God still use me? How, then, should we respond to the forgiven transgressor? How should we see ourselves? Should the...