What Would Jesus Eat

It seemed appropriate that just after I added my last blog post I received this information from Mike Morrell.  He and Kevin Beck are hosting a presentation with Lucas Land Thursday evening 8pm New York Time entitled What Would Jesus Eat Lucas is doing a full-immersion internship at a sustainable farm that’s all about producing [...]

A Prayer for the Earth from Brian McLaren

I have not had much to say about the Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen while I was travelling but this does not mean that the upcoming meeting has not been in my thoughts and prayers.  I think that this is probably the most important meeting on climate change that there has ever been and I [...]

Do You Believe in the Corporation?

This morning we have been talking about the challenges of the global economy and how it seduces us into its values.  We also talked about how easily we buy into the values of our secular culture – its work rhythms, its suburban lifestyles, its consumer patterns – and then living our Christianity over the top [...]

Everyday Justice

My copy of Julie Clawson’s Everyday Justice: The Global Impact of Our Daily Choices arrived yesterday and i wanted to make sure that you all knew about it as soon as possible.  This is a book that I am really excited about, not just because I wrote the forward but because I think that it [...]

Civil Disobedience as Spiritual Practice.

I don’t usually do blog posts on Saturday morning but because I still have several articles that I have not been able to get posted I thought that I would post this interview today which was sent to me by Jarrod McKenna from Perth Australia.  Tom met Jarrod McKenna the last time he was in [...]

Another Breathing Prayer

I find that breathing prayers are very relaxing and help me to connect my faith to the every day.  I have also noticed that the breathing prayers I post are very popular so I thought that I would add this one which I have written for our annual Celtic prayer retreat August 15th
Breathe on us God of [...]

Herbs, Healing and Hot Under the Collar

 
 
My garden and spirituality seminar is only 3 days away, the irises are in full bloom, and the garden has never looked better.   It looks as though we will have beautiful weather for exploring the garden and the many ways in which God’s story is revealed in and through it.  Not surprisingly my reading [...]

What Is A Spiritual Practice?

A couple of months ago I wrote a post on reimagining our spiritual practices.  I wrote that I feel we really limit our understanding of God and faith when we restrict our spiritual practices to prayer and scripture study.  I also said that for me a spiritual practice is any routine I perform on a [...]

Justice for the Gardeners

A couple of days ago Pat Loughery sent me a link to the trailer for the film The Garden.  You probably realize that I am not a film buff because I rarely blog about what I have seen or want to see but this is definitely one that catches my imagination,.  Thanks Pat for the recommendation. [...]

Pentecost Seattle

Here is an event that I am really excited about – a wonderful opportunity for us to encourage each other to get involved in our neighborhoods.
On May 16, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Emerging Church, Catholic and Mainline Christians together with those who are spiritually inclined but unrelated to any Christian community will gather in Seattle for Pentecost [...]