Driving as Spiritual Practice

The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal.  A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW.  The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soaking.  However as [...]

Yoga & Jesus: This is a spiritual practice

I continue to be challenged and stretched by the ways that people connect to God and to Jesus Christ.  The posts below are by Christina Whitehouse-Sugg.  I found them particularly intriguing because of my growing interest in Christian meditation and as you know I am also passionate about Henri Nouwen.  I feel that we have [...]

Spiritual Discipline – Serving At the Pantry

Well yesterday afternoon all my good intentions went out the window.  I had expected to post another of the excellent articles still being submitted for the series on What is a Spiritual Discipline but two things happened to change all that.  First the temperature in Seattle climbed to an all time record of 103 F [...]

The Spiritual Practice of Getting Honest with Myself

The temperature here in Seattle might reach 100F today and even for someone like me who loves the hot weather this is a little much.  The garden isn’t too happy either.  The tomatoes and beans stop setting fruit and of course anything that isn’t being watered is shrivelling up and dying.  All that to say [...]

Smoking to the Glory of God

This evening’s article comes from Jason Clark. Founding Pastor of Vinyard Church in Sutton UK.  He is currently working on a second doctorate (P.hD) at Kings College London.  He blogs at Deep Church I am not quite sure how Jason had time to write this as his family is struggling with swine flu. …why do [...]

Tentative Schedule for Australia October 2009

Tom and will be speaking in Australia throughout the month of October. Here is a tentative list of their gigs, but all dates are subject to change. It’s a work in progress.  If you are interested in hosting an event there are still openings October 1 | Arrive in Sydney 2-4 | Black Stump Festival (Sydney, NSW) [...]

Love-Making As A Spiritual Practice

The submissions are coming in thick and fast at the moment for the What is a Spiritual Practice series.  I will probably post twice a day over the next couple of days in order to keep pace.  Wonderful reflections.  I love to read through each one before I post it and there are a number [...]

The Spiritual Practice of Apologizing

Today’s article in the series What is a Spiritual Practice is The Spiritual Practice of Apologizing by T Freeman. “T” describes himself as a dad, husband, self-employed lawyer and apprentice of Jesus.  He is part of a small team planting a church in downtown West Palm Beach Florida.  He blogs at Getting Free “I’m sorry.” [...]

What Is A Spiritual Practice – More Great Posts

I hope that you have been following the blog posts in my blog series What is a Spiritual Practice. There are a number of excellent articles that have been posted in the last couple of weeks and the submissions keep coming in.  We still have the promise of topics as varied as parenting, yoga, civil [...]

Engagement as Spiritual Practice

This morning’s post is by Thomas Turner from Everyday Liturgy.  It was first posted on the Everyday Liturgy blog While on vacation I saw on my brother’s bookshelf a book by Gene Edward Veith entitled Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture.  Intrigued, I read the introduction to see what it would cover [...]