An opportunity to consider the question, "What is *cino worth to you?"
We've had some pretty basic profiles of our board members up on the site for a while, but here's a more personal account of how they contribute to the organization.
On the importance of keeping commitments to others and to self.
Travels in Tibet reveal some of the lessons that the practice of Buddhism can teach Christians.
On cultivating a new attitude toward the busier-than-thou game.
A bike ride prompts gratitude for the gift of community.
Ten things I have unsuccessfully willed myself to do (or not do).
On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.
Three Rivers, Michigan promises destinations for many kinds of pilgrims, including the reluctant ones.
On coming face to face with one’s self in a monastery.
Remembering Simone Weil and a middle school band of misfits.
Recounting a journey toward acceptance and intentionality.
On moving from pretending to loyalty in the virtual world.
A reflection on adulthood, hard friendships and the nature of commitment.
Reflecting on work in Haiti after the earthquake.
On planning the ceremony after 50, with kids, in the midst of the stuff of life.
How mundane details met audacious hope, in the round, on December 31, 2000.
Resources for individuals and congregations to respond on June 20, 2010, the two-month anniversary of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Conflicting loyalties with regard to communities.
Learning from the ordinary spectacle of birds on a wire.
On the costliness of growing up into Christ-centered institutions.
On the relationship between solitude and serving others.
On truth, interpretation and the search for a bible-based way of life.
Announcing a 2011 commitment to create a poem an issue.
On making space for transition in our New Year's resolutions.
Learning to stay present to God in each moment on the cusp of a lay monastic novitiate.
A reflection on practicing a domestic liturgy.
A mother reflects on her family's longing for a better home.
A reflection on the direction of the world, with reference to poets.
Confessions of a spouse struggling with his own faults and his partner's depression.