Reflections
Nov. 14, 2025
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Jan. 16, 2026
Tis the Season: Grounding Gratefulness
“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is ‘thank you,’ it will be enough,” wrote the great 14th-century German mystic, Meister Eckhart. A grateful attitude is one of our most potent tools for health, agree doctors across the board. As we approach another season in which giving, receiving and thanking take center stage, it is common practice to bring to mind the particular blessings that grace our lives. But this year, perhaps more than many, finds many lists of blessings in disarray, and the sense of gratitude endangered.
Stories Within Stories: Of Shepherds and Wise Men
The Christmas season is upon us. Whether we are religious or not, the mood is one of expectation, bolstered by the new year that follows close on its tail. And whether or not we pause to reflect on the sacred stories that tell of the hope, peace, joy and love promised by the coming of Jesus into the world, it is nonetheless within them that the anticipation and assurance carried by the holiday was born. Yet in training our hopeful gaze on a distant horizon of fulfillment, we have overlooked the very this-worldly challenges embodied by the drama’s characters.
Time After Time:
Seasons of Eternity
New years and birthdays – they keep coming and we keep marking them, feeling instinctively that they must mean something in the measure of a life. Scattered with regret and gratitude behind us, anxiety and hope ahead, chronos is our default orientation to the unfolding of time. Yet each of the major religious traditions shapes and is shaped by itsown particular intuitions about time; these days, science offers yet another. As we face the often daunting prospect of another year of challenges and opportunities, we might benefit from reflecting on different ways to parse the living of it.
Meet Kaira
From a solid foundation in both Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Theology degrees, Kaira has pursued her own curriculum into and through the wealth of the world’s spiritual wisdom. Indigenous and institutional, philosophical and anecdotal, from the West and from the East, Kaira has cast a wide net in her search for truth. With the soul of a monastic, she brings a singleness of mind and heart into dialogue with the world’s challenges.
In these pages and in her book-in-progress, The Grand Adventure: Bearing the Imago, Kaira offers the distillation of her decades-long journey to discover what we are all looking for – meaning, purpose and greater life – and to bring our nature as imago dei to the transformation of the world.
Kaira's Coming Book
The Grand Adventure rescues the spiritual life from a sense of settled reality and calls readers into the adventure it is meant to be. Drawing on philosophy, theology and the biblical narrative, Kaira builds an original cosmology seated in the imago dei, applies it to reenvision the Christian tradition and to bring Christianity into conversation with Asian spiritual traditions, then employs all to engender a renewed path into the world and into God, individually and collectively.