Category: Spiritual Practice
Into the Silence
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a...
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Spirituality 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...
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Wild 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...
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A 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...
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Pandemic 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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The Art of Advent Gardening
This essay is comprised of excerpts from chapters one and three of Christine’s new book Digging...
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Leading the Duck: Anticipating New Expressions of Faith Life
I love the church and have devoted my life to nurturing faith communities that gather, heal, and...
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Review of Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the Pacific Northwest
The following is a review of Religion at the Edge: Nature, Spirituality, and Secularity in the...
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To See Again
“That moment of waking is an incredible opportunity, and it’s quite a tragedy if you go straight...
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Birdwise: An Accidental Liturgy of the Hours
Trapped, inside my cabin: one hummingbird—a glittering ruff, eyes like live coals— Somebody left...
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Wisdom of the Wild: Biomimicry as Spiritual Practice
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature...
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Receiving Images: A Practice of Visio Divina
Scouting the Natural World Hungry for shared peace and a dose of indelible beauty, my husband and...
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