Category: Spiritual Practice
Grieving Together: A Discipline for Cascadia’s Communities
When it comes to grief, we often act as if we can tunnel hastily through the mountain of our experience instead of following the natural contours of the journey. We want to get to solutions, to healing, to moving forward, without acknowledging that some terrain requires a different kind of navigation. Grief demands that we move at the pace the landscape sets, following its contours.
Read MoreScripture Still Speaks to the Soul
This past year, Rev. Meg Dowling of Bremerton United Methodist Church in the city of Bremerton,...
Read MoreSharing the Pulpit:
Lay Preaching Brings the Word to Life in Cascadia
The high schooler in my small group leaned in close, as if confessing a secret. “Sometimes I write...
Read MoreWelcoming the Outcast
This article is an excerpt taken from Hearing the Heartbeat of God by Michael Neelley. This book...
Read MoreWho’s Going to Save America?
The United States of Angst We are days away from the presidential election, and you could say that...
Read MoreA John Company Carnival: Confronting the Monsters Within Us
Getting Our Monster On (or Out!) On the Tuesday night before Ash Wednesday, my (Paul S) family...
Read MoreBoard Games as Liturgy: The Thin Space of Play
Every year, over one weekend in January, we gather in Poulsbo, Washington with more than 100...
Read MoreInto the Silence
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a...
Read MoreSpirituality for a Non-religious Age:
St. Francis in Cascadia
Cascadia ain’t religious. It is famous for it. Data released in 2022 from the latest Canadian...
Read MoreWild Praise:
How the Celtic Imagination Invites Us into a Feral Worship
The sun was just warming the sky with the first blush of pink and purple; the sounds of daybreak...
Read MoreA Holy High: Advocating for the Spiritual Use of Hallucinogens
This was the sixties, an era of liturgical reform and experimentation. Our worship, I wrote to my...
Read MorePandemic Feasts: Seeking Communion
Weeks before the world stopped and we were left wondering when or whether it would start up again,...
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