Category: Spiritual Practice
A 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,...
Read MoreThe Art of Advent Gardening
This essay is comprised of excerpts from chapters one and three of Christine’s new book Digging...
Read MoreLeading 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...
Read MoreReview 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...
Read MoreTo See Again
“That moment of waking is an incredible opportunity, and it’s quite a tragedy if you go straight...
Read MoreBirdwise: 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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