Spiritual Reflection

Keeping the Sabbath

Jul 26, 2024

God gave us Sabbath, for our health and our enjoyment.
Sacred permission to be in agony

Jul 19, 2024

We are not making enough space for grief, either in our churches or in our lives. We are not giving people the tools they need to handle frustration, loss, and heartbreak, nor how to grieve when they are beset by them.
Praying when it seems useless

Jul 12, 2024

Prayer is most needed just when it seems most useless. Michael J. Buckley, one of the major spiritual mentors in my life, wrote those words.
What has been given you to carry?

Jul 05, 2024

Each of us comes into this world with a God-given vocation. In essence, that’s easy enough to pinpoint. Simply put, we are all asked to love God and love each other.
Giving one’s death away

Jun 29, 2024

According to the renowned mystic John of the Cross, we have three essential struggles in life: to get our lives together, to give our lives away, and to give our deaths away.
We are better and worse than we think

Jun 15, 2024

Our own complexity can be befuddling. We are better than we think and worse than we imagine, too hard and too easy on ourselves all at the same time. We are a curious mix.
Losing a loved one to suicide

Jun 07, 2024

There is perhaps nothing more painful in the world than for us to lose a loved one to suicide.
Reacting to criticism

May 31, 2024

Everything about Jesus suggests that Hume’s view is closer to the gospel than the other. When Jesus says, my flesh is food for the life of the world, he is telling us that the major task of the church is not to defend itself, to ensure its continuity, or to keep the world from grinding it up.
The dark night as impasse

May 24, 2024

God can flow into our lives pure and untainted when we are at an impasse and unable to substitute our vision for God’s vision
An invitation to a Liturgical Prayer

May 17, 2024

Everyone who is baptized as a Christian is baptized into the priesthood of Jesus Christ. The priesthood is given to all baptized Christians and is not just the prerogative and responsibility of those who are officially ordained for ministry, and with this comes an invitation to all adult Christians.