You could say I’m a bit of a church mutt. I grew up Lutheran, spent about a decade in a Baptist church, attended non-denominational and evangelical Protestant churches for years, visited numerous Pentecostal and Orthodox churches, became an ordained minister …
“We don’t think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.” I love this quote from Fr. Richard Rohr, the Franciscan friar who founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico. When …
For a while, it was a goal of mine to have a huge personal library with hundreds or thousands of books. Then, I moved a few times and had to pack up all those books that adorned my shelves and …
I was recently reminded of the following quote from the English author, Karen Armstrong: We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature, and …
Moving to Lynchburg from Rhode Island, my family traded in the ocean views for the mountain views. We have enjoyed those moments every so often around town when you can get a quick, yet stunning, glimpse of the mountains. They …
For the last two years I have been on a contemplative spiritual journey. It has been a journey of recovering the truth that I am a human being, not simply a human doer. As a minister, it’s been a journey …
If a year ago you had told my wife, Kate, and me that we would be trading living by the ocean with living by the mountains, we wouldn’t have believed you. As recent Rhode Islanders, we are excited for this …