Category: Spiritual Practice
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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Losing My Job, Finding Myself
“In order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be, and in order...
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Time in the Trees is Good for the Soul
I step off the northeast corner of our little farm and into a forest. It’s just a copse really;...
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Honest Encounters: A Review of Hannah Anderson’s Turning of Days
Could a book of meditations on the landscape of rural Virginia be relevant to readers in Cascadia?...
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Desperately Waiting on Christmas
Have you noticed that people seem to have put up their Christmas trees, house lights, and...
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A Theology of Kin-dom: Church of the Wild and a New World Order
Once upon a time, back before “Zoom church” was a thing, our community worshipped in the wild once...
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