Reflections
The Grand Adventure: Knowing God in the 21 st Century
Every adventure begins with a single step. We are begun.
A Thinking Spirituality: Why Spirituality Needs Philosophy
Whenever I hear people identify themselves as spiritual but not religious, I want to say, “That’s a great place to start. Now, where is it going to take you?”
The Question of Revelation: A God Who Wants To Be Known
Explore how God’s longing to be known invites us into an ongoing, transformative revelation—one not bound by ancient times, but alive in every moment of our lives.
The Nondual God: Into the Mystery of Us
Perhaps God is not a divine being, but Being Itself, the very Isness in which everything has life.
Nonduality II: A Fertile Emptiness
Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. The traditional Buddhist formula for Ultimate Reality may have much to tell us about the God who empties Godself into the world.
On Prayer: What Do We Think We’re Doing?
Odyssey Toward Omega: Embedded Hope
“Each of us is part of an immense cosmic drama of transformation.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offers a lofty framing of our existential moment.
Tis the Season: Grounding Gratefulness
A life of gratefulness holds out its hand to us. In learning surprise, cultivating courage, and trusting life, we reach back to grasp the gift of gifts.
Stories Within Stories: Of Shepherds and Wise Men
We have heard the stories of Jesus’s birth so often that we are certain we understand them. But important layers of meaning may have been lost in neglecting the urgent agendas of the authors who set them down.
Time After Time: Seasons of Eternity
The Ground Beyond: Courting a New Conciousness
Albert Einstein once said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” But where should we look for that next level? How might we get there? And what would it look like?
Like A Child: The Spirituality Of Curiosity
We all started there, where a room was a world and a backyard a universe. When did we lose the curiosity that propelled us into our days? It’s not too late to find our way back to the moments that pull us up short.
Hushing The Hum: The Double-Edged Gift Of Silence
Silence is an endangered element these days, squeezed out by the constant drone of information and entertainment. We need to recover the spaces in which Spirit speaks, in which wisdom is born.
Love’s Plan: The Mystery of God’s Will
We are inclined to look for God’s will when we face big decisions or unexplainable tragedies, but do we know what we are looking for?
Cloister and World: The Legacy of Thomas Merton
The monastic vocation at its best is not an escape from life, but a step back from life in order to see it, and serve it, better. In the mid-20th century, Trappist monk Thomas Merton invited readers around the world to enter his journey of turning toward, becoming and challenging the light and dark spaces where Spirit is known.