A review of Speak What We Feel (Not What We Ought to Say): Reflections on Literature and Faith by Frederick Buechner.
An account of overcoming fear of "the other."
On listening as worship and as ministry.
An overview of community principles practiced at The Hermitage Community.
The athlete’s mantra as a guide to a healthier perspective.
Overcoming political fundamentalism with a little openness.
A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.
What happens when we open ourselves up to meeting songs with a posture of hospitality?
A new angle on abundance shapes a shift in relationship.
Spring rolls around again with broken earth and broken promises.
The question of whether Google is making us "stoopid" may only begin to assess what we stand to lose.
Ten world music albums that inspire wonder at the range of human creativity.
On Spirit, truth and silence in the off-seasons of a college town.
Examining the notion of popular culture in a segregated society.
Recovering the practice of retreat in our lives and in our worship.
Learning to stay present to God in each moment on the cusp of a lay monastic novitiate.
A family learns to trust the Spirit and stay inside -- until it's time.
On embracing the mourning of parents who have lost a child to a miscarriage.
Seven rules from the perspective of a parent and professional educator.
A gentle nudge to encounter art. Soon.
Helping students find the way through the valley of mental illness.
Family and summer camp memories reinforce the power of game time.
Loving marginalized places enough to unearth their gifts and share their burdens.
A report from Occupy Chicago.
On the special blend on offer in a small town Iowa coffee shop.
On moving from image to person in our inevitable judgments of clothing.
Storytelling in the time of government shutdown.
The artfulness of community development in a small, rural city.
On learning the language of the land.