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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. […]

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

Nov. 11, 2025 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

Oct. 17, 2025 Odyssey Toward Omega: Embedded Hope Both science and religion track the mystery of the world, why it is and why it is the way it is. For centuries they honored each other’s tools and beliefs, but as science increasingly distinguished itself from cosmological myth, the tension could not hold. The chasm opened

Sept. 20, 2025 On Prayer: What Do We Think We’re Doing? With notable frequency these days, when talk among friends turns to all the tragedies, injustices and challenges in the world, people express their feelings of helplessness in a familiar formula: “All we can do is pray.” Yet studies over the past decade indicate that

Nonduality II: A Fertile Emptiness About halfway through my first theology degree, I started saying, “Theology is great as long as we don’t start to think we know what we’re talking about.” A bit of hyperbole perhaps, it nonetheless became a motto for me, holding the delicate tension between the mystery that cannot be captured