Boundary Breaking Books

Thanksgiving and Christmas are fast approaching and there is much to do & much that I want to say over this next week.  One thing I realized is that I have not blogged much about the books that I am reading at the moment, partly because there are so many that I get a little [...]

How Do We View God?

I am busily getting ready for my last day here at WorldView and reflecting on how we all view God.  I think that there is no better way to see how others view God than to look at the art with which we depict God.  I know that I have done something like this before [...]

Cultural Protocols as Spiritual Practice

Today’s post comes to us from Hannah Haiu in New Zealand.  Hannah comes from Maori and Irish heritage.  She works with iEmergence iEmergence which was conceived as a way for indigenous youth/young adults and their families to engage in culturally appropriate holistic transformational development opportunities while training next generation leaders.  I had the privilege of [...]

Hope for the American Church

Today is the day for Remembering Enmegahbowh, first Native American Episcopal Priest so it seemed appropriate to reflect on the gifts that Native Americans bring to the church.
What can the American church learn from indigenous peoples?  Here is a very profound and thought provoking video by Richard Twiss one of the presenters at the NAIITS [...]

Listening to the Other

The June MSA Seed Sampler is entitled Encountering the Other.  In it we have sort to present the viewpoints of those who are different from us and who view faith in ways that may seem foreign and even offensive to us.  In her introduction our editor judy Naegeli states
The great challenge of the Christian faith [...]

Challenged and Provoked

Tom & Eliacin and I are just back from the Native American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies Symposium in Langley BC.  Ostensibly we were there to speak but in reality we had far more to learn than we had to teach.
It was one of the most challenging and eye opening conferences that I have been [...]

Join Us for Read the Other Month.

The month of May is Read the Other month at Mustard Seed Associates as part of our Alternative Calendar celebration and we are encouraging people to consider reading literature that they would not usually look at.  If you never read fiction this is the time to dip into it, or poetry or maybe you want [...]

What Shapes Your Spirituality?

 
 
 
Last week I wrote a post on New Realities Shaping Spirituality in the 21st Century.  Since then I have been thinking a lot about the forces that shape spirituality for all of us in this global village in which we live.  These thoughts have been spurred on by the fact that Pentecost is only a [...]

Who Was The Woman With the Perfume?

Today I am winding up my time at OMSC where I have been teaching a course on spiritual renewal.  Yesterday we were reflecting on the story in Mark 14 about the woman who poured the perfume on Jesus feet at the house of Simon the leper and I thought that I would share some of [...]

New Realities Shaping 21st Century Spirituality

 
I am currently in New Haven Connecticut teaching  a course on spiritual renewal at the Overseas Ministries Study Center.  This is one of the most stimulating courses that I am involved in.  I always feel that I am spiritually renewed by the students rather than providing them with spiritual renewal.   There are several [...]