Those Long Seasons of Divine Absence Long ago, a psalmist wrote that weeping or mourning may linger for a night, “but joy comes with the...

I saw a sign: “Faith, not Fear” with a picture of a surgical mask in a circle with line through it. The opposite of fear isn’t faith....

I went to public schools K-12. In my day, pre-K was spelled “grandmother.” I had a very wise teacher in high school who advised us to sit...

So much uncertainty. Global pandemics. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Wars. Refugees. Nations of people no longer willing to listen to...

When I came to faith during the Jesus Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, I gobbled up information from Bible studies, books, tapes,...

We regret the past. We fear the future. In so doing, we neglect to live in the present. It’s time to let go of regret. Once I have...

One key to spiritual transformation is to learn on a day to day, minute by minute basis, to be aware of what St. Ignatius called...

Forgiveness My son Elliott committed suicide when he was in high school. After his death, church people told me he was in hell because of...

The God whose very essence is love did not hardwire humans to fail. Holiness, connectedness with God, being conformed to the image of...

God is a God of relationship, creativity, movement and love – Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer dancing – from the heart of God flows the...

If you grew up in a loving supportive home connected to a healthy faith community that was a part of a strong spiritual tradition, I’m...

A Third Way That’s Neither Liberal nor Fundamentalist Whether Buddhist, Islamic, Jewish, Hindu, or Christian, adherents to religions tend...

Imagine two houses for you to live in. They are both very adequate houses. If you’re a middle class American, the first house was built...

He was only 25-years-old when, in 1927 Charles Lindbergh went from an obscure Minnesota farm boy turned mail pilot to the most famous...

When incoming patients register at hospitals, they are asked to identify a religious preference. The majority self-identify as either...

It seems we humans carry the genetic markers of untold generations. The horrors of ancient genocides and brutal bloody battles, of...

Most people in North America and northern Europe, as well as many in a secularize China and Japan, are not religious, if “religious” is...

When incoming patients register at hospitals, they are asked to identify a religious preference. The majority self-identify as either...

Well, maybe not everything. (Although I remember a period when I questioned my own existence and wondered if all of “reality” was in fact...

God is good, and, therefore, everything God creates is good – oceans, dolphins, mountains, elk, forests, redheaded woodpeckers, and you....