Essays on the journey toward wholeness — on peace, freedom, and the belovedness we grow into along the road.
There is a poison flowing through our lives at the moment, it is showing up in our families, across our society, and literally threatening the entire planet. We can all point to…
Read →Sooner or later we come into contact with 'forces greater than ourselves,' which if we're not ready for them can sweep us up before we know what's happened. The created world…
Read →Practitioners of Zen Buddhism wrestle with a teaching story of a master questioning a pilgrim: Dizang, the teacher, asks the pilgrim Fayan, "Where are you going?" Fayan says,…
Read →"We are all people…We are one family; we all live in the same house…it is better to love than to hate; it is better to be loved than divided." - Representative John Lewis, 2016 I…
Read →A post on St. Ignatius Loyola might seem to make the above title incongruous, but a love story is at the heart of the man. Ignatius, a Basque mystic who in the 16th century…
Read →"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." ― Mother Teresa I was sitting on a beach a few years ago looking out on the ocean. There was…
Read →Meister Eckhart, a fourteenth century Dominican friar, theologian and mystic, got himself in hot water with the Church when he wrote: "When God laughs at the soul and the soul…
Read →When I think of confident people, they are invariably cool, unflappable, even insouciant, but they carry themselves with an authority that those of us around them find compelling.…
Read →Author Robin DiAngelo in her best selling book, White Fragility, describes white people's complicity in the societal structures of racism as an inescapable consequence of our…
Read →To be "returned to ourself" is simply to be brought back into the truth of who each of us is. All the philosophies, theologies, and ideologies, for all their value, cannot compare…
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