“I’ve been thinking recently about our temptation to try to become more like God — more holy, more sinless, more perfect. Perhaps the thing we should be working for is to become more human — more fragile, more vulnerable, more unfinished; to be better at being human.” -Cheryl Lawrie

It is only until you are having a conversation with the other that you are able to actually to see yourself. During my family’s annual trip to Colorado we spent an evening with friends of my in-laws. They are an older couple who have spent the last 20 years living in these Colorado mountains ranching. I [...]

  Here’s a link to a write up I did for the Clayfire Curator reflectin upon my experiences at Wild Goose.   For those who won’t read the article, here’s the poetic summation:   Wild Goose was a time of celebration … We heard the good news, a better news than many had grown up [...]

According to a story in the Midrash, the night before the Torah was given, the Israelites retired early to be well-rested for the momentous day ahead, but they overslept and Moses had to wake them up because God was already waiting on the mountaintop.[18] To rectify this perceived flaw in the national character, religious Jews stay up [...]

lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe.

lex orandi, lex credendi Literally, “the law of prayer, the law of belief”. Understood to mean, the way we pray/worship determines what/how we believe. I really like this idea. I think it resonates deeply with what I’ve been trying to do with Vespers. For many years I’ve had this sense that there was a large [...]

Infertility has always been a problem, but it hasn’t been until recently that science and medicine have been able to do anything to counter it. NPR’s Morning Edition had a story of one family’s struggles to get pregnant. I hesitate to talk about this topic, due to the deep emotional troubles that are tied to [...]

In my latest library perusing I came across Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. I’d originally heard of it from Robb Ryerse who had read it a few months back and blogged about it. I find the whole topic of how technology and media affect us all very interesting. [...]

I have avoided this final reflection for a week or so now. I feel as though I have some final thoughts upon Caputo’s ideas in The Weakness of God but I haven’t felt that they were clear enough to put down on {the proverbial} paper. So here are my random thoughts on and quotes from [...]