Advent is Coming – Will You Join Me?

Tom and I are finally done with our travels.  It is good to be back in Seattle and getting my clock and my life turned around after our hectic Fall schedule.

I came back to beautiful orchids in bloom which certainly lifted my spirits when I considered the mountain of work that awaits me…. and it [...]

Maybe Religion is the Answer Claims Atheist Scientist

Late yesterday afternoon I took a break from my usual activities and followed some of the fun and interesting links that I had come across in the last few days.  Yes that is the kind of thing that I do for relaxation.
Most of them explore different aspects of autumn (sorry to my readers in the [...]

What Is A Spiritual Practice: The Complete Series

September is rapidly coming to a close or at least is seems so to me because we will be heading to Australia next week – for once heading into spring and not winter on our travels.  Before I go I wanted to round off the summer blog series What is a Spiritual Practice with a [...]

Resources from Online Schools

Many of you are just starting back to school so I thought that you might be interested in this site which I just became aware of because they listed my blog amongst their 100 Best Blogs For Real World Advice and Education
As the site says:
College comes with a hefty pricetag. And why would it not? [...]

Reinventing the Wheel

Well I am drawing the What is a Spiritual Practice series to a close at least for this year, with this one final post.  I am delighted at the many responses I have received about articles and the ways that this series has encouraged many of you to rethink what a spiritual practice is.  I [...]

The Spirituality of the Long Distance Runner

I had not intended to add another post today but just came across this one written by Steve Fouch in response to the What is a Spiritual Practice challenge.  I thought that some of you would find it as interesting as I did.  He describes himself as an average father, working at an average job, looking [...]

The Spiritual Practice of Lament

The post below was sent to me by Tracy Byrd Dickerson who describes herself as a lover of Jesus, wife of a fabulous husband, mother to two great guys, hospice nurse, seminarian, celebrant of life abundant.  She blogs at Nacreous Kingdom
In studying the Psalms for a seminary class, I was once again struck with the [...]

Spiritual Practices For Sitting in Front of the Screen

At the end of last week I said that I was adding what would probably be the last post in the What is a Spiritual Practice series.  However I continue to receive posts and will continue to add new ones that I receive.
Today’s post cones from Lynne Baab.  Lynne has written several books on spiritual [...]

What Are the Top Christian Blogs?

I just discovered that I am listed amongst the Top 100 Christian blogs according to Kent Shaffer at Church Relevance.  Just snuck in at 87th.  It is an interesting list which you might like to check out and I appreciate the incredible amount of work that Kent has done to put this together.  I have [...]

Thirsting for Coffee With God- A Very Spiritual Practice

This will probably be the last post in the What is a Spiritual Practice series and it seems appropriate that because I live in Seattle the last post is about drinking coffee.
Today’s post comes from Richard Dahlstrom senior pastor at Bethany Community Church in Seattle.  Richard blogs at Pastoral Musings from Rain City.  His recent [...]