Swaying walnut trees above the rooftops Wave golden tipped arms over the Unmoving great blue heron in Frozen pose at river’s edge,...

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational. Rational fears are based on a real threat and serve to protect us by automatically...

My oldest child committed suicide when he was not quite 15-years-old. He was not mentally ill. He was not depressed or bipolar. He was...

There are numerous women in all of our lives. All of us, regardless of biology, have both a feminine and a masculine side to our...

Hermits appear in many myths. Two show up in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Generally, the mythological hermits are good guys,...

The medieval legend of King Arthur and the Quest for the Holy Grail contains the story of Parsifal.[1] In folklore, the Holy Grail is the...

That all of nature is interconnected is a given. The symbiosis of pollinators and flowers, aspen groves, climate and weather, and gravity...

How do we enter the suffering of the world without being depressed, overwhelmed, or perpetually angry? The world is a mess. Humanity is...

Bad stuff happens – cancer, war, floods, fires, racism, betrayal, poverty … Two questions are often intertwined in the problem of evil....

I am a certified spiritual director, trained in the Benedictine tradition at the Global Online Benedictine Spiritual Direction Program in...

The shadow self is not evil or sinful; it is simply hidden. The heart of the universe is pure love. God is love – unconditional, perfect,...

People say there is nothing harder than losing a child. I can’t say for sure – there’s much I haven’t experienced. I can say that when my...

Because we are created, designed, and therefore evolved as rational, thinking beings, we humans often display an innate curiosity, a...

Affirm others Accept others Don’t judge others Be kind Be polite Don't seek approval through achievements. Look for the value in...

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...