Note: This post is a bit more interactive than usual. At the end there are no answers or insights, just an exercise that may help you ponder this question more deeply, from a spiritual perspective. [...]
I’ve learned a great deal in the past few weeks, much of it arising from the recently concluded impeachment trial of Donald Trump. You may find it useful, so here goes: I have discovered my [...]
I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in [...]
Please receive her, and she will tell you some new things. Let her tell her story without interrupting her, and give close attention, and you will see she has got the lever of truth, that [...]
A few months ago, I told my spiritual director I couldn’t see any clear purpose to my life. He responded with “Who says life has to have a purpose?” Well. Ever since my writing took [...]
The Bible is hard to read. Really, really hard. A good friend reminded me of this over dinner last week. We’ve never discussed religion in more than 20 years of acquaintance, so she surprised me [...]
My wife and I were having one of our occasional “how are things going” conversations, where we look beyond “how was your day” to the deeper currents that run through our lives. She’d felt out [...]
In the last post I sketched out some of my ideas on what forgiveness isn’t. It’s not forgetting in the sense of erasing betrayal from our memories. It’s certainly not returning to our adversaries to [...]
A few months ago I posted a piece about several upheavals in my life—betrayals, broken friendships, whatnot—and my inner work around them. “This work has been very difficult and very good,” I wrote back then. [...]
I wasn’t planning to write about the Donald Trump – Ukraine kerfuffle. Goodness knows, there’s plenty of that on the airwaves already. But my work experience caused me to notice something that I haven’t seen [...]