Sept. 19, 2026 Life From the Desert: A Spiritual Geography It is no secret that many are walking away from the church these days. The trend that became visible in the 1960s has picked up speed in recent decades. Countless studies that have tracked the decline in religious affiliation have also made clear that many […]
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Aug. 14, 2026 Keep It Together: The Imaginary Science/Spirit Split It began in a creeping misunderstanding. The pioneering work of Francis Bacon and Galileo was never intended to dispense with religion, but rather to sort the proper methodologies with which to know God and the natural world. What was meant as a distinction became a
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July 18, 2026 Wisdom Lit: A Short Course in Reading Scripture I have known a few people who decided, for various reasons, to read the Bible straight through. None of them finished – or even got very far. The stories in Genesis cook right along, about half of Exodus too. But the next three and
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June. 20, 2026 Cloister and World: The Legacy of Thomas Merton I first discovered Thomas Merton while shelving books in the large bookstore where I worked. The title was not one that would have leapt into the hands of most browsers. But to one seeking a simpler path through the tangle of a major life
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May. 15, 2026 Love’s Plan: The Mystery of God’s Will Growing up in a religious household, I often heard the will of God invoked. What nuances this phrase may have held for my parents and Sunday School teachers I can’t say, but I suspect they were not much different from my own. The transcendent supreme
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Apr. 16, 2026 Hushing The Hum: The Double-Edged Gift Of Silence For millennia, silence was the fabric upon which life was embroidered, the deep lake from which thought and feeling rose. What sound there was breathed itself out from the nature of being, from the planet and everything that moved within and upon it, the
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Mar. 14, 2026 Like A Child: The Spirituality Of Curiosity It is one of the most cherished stories in the Gospels. Children are brought to Jesus for his blessing, and his disciples try to keep them away. Jesus has important work to do; they don’t want him bothered. But Jesus catches wind of it and
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Feb. 14, 2026 The Ground Beyond: Courting a New Conciousness I cannot imagine that I am the only one who, in these fraught days, has recalled Albert Einstein’s famous statement: “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” A review of history offers up a number of moments when
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Jan. 17, 2026 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.
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Dec. 12, 2025 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
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