Where is Christmas?

I am sitting at our dining room table looking out on a beautiful September morning.  It is hard to believe that in a couple of days I will be in Australia – once more heading into spring rather than into autumn.  I will miss the glory of the fall leaves around the lake but I [...]

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 [...]

Latest of the Spiritual Practices Series

The spiritual practices blog series is coming to a close. Christine has just a few more to post after this. Here’s the round-up of posts for the last month:
Celebrations and Parties as a Spiritual Discipline by Kathy Escobar, The Refuge
The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea by Andy Wade
Networking as Spiritual Practice by Steve Knight,
Mothering as [...]

What is a Spiritual Practice – The Series So Far

The summer blog series What is a Spiritual Practice is now well underway and I am excited by the excellent articles that have already been posted and by the promise of many more to come – on topics as varied as parenting, yoga and civil protest.  So I hope that you will not only look [...]

Reflections for the Fourth Week of Lent

We are now well into the Fourth week of Lent though from my perspective the concern for creation and the pollution of our environment that we are focusing on this week is just beginning.  If you have not done it yet take time to check out your eco footprint.  and think about what you could do [...]

Blogging for Lent – More Reflections

Here is the latest collection of reflections on the beginning of Lent from my fellow bloggers.
Jeff Greer:  The Frailty of Life
Michael Winter: Fat Thursday
Michael Wallenmeyer: Lent and Hell
You can check out the blogs of other participants here
For this next week I have asked people to focus their reflection and their activities on the [...]

Generosity not fear

Check out this great post with a poem on Generosity and Fear by Todd Hierstand.
We are living in a time where fear and despair are the overwhelming attitudes. Whether we’re talking about our personal financial situations or our national financial situation or our world’s financial situation these attitudes are prevalent. Fear. Despair.
But as those who [...]

Spirituality for those at the Margins

I have just arrived in Minneapolis for the Common Root conference which Tom & I will be speaking at tomorrow evening.  As I we were flying I started thinking about Peter Rollins comment about denying the resurrection which has created so much buzz in the blogosphere in the last few days.
Without equivocation or hesitation I [...]

Carribean Black Bean and Pumpkin Soup

I just mentioned on Twitter that I was making Black Bean and Pumpkin soup and receved so many responses that I thought I better post the recipe.  Enjoy
Title: Caribbean Black Bean And Pumpkin Soup
Yield: 8 Servings
1 t  ground cumin
2 lb pumpkin,Pureed
1 lb black beans
1 1/2 c  Coconut Milk
4 c  vegetable broth
4 T  chopped fresh cilantro
2 [...]

Community In Our Genes

Yesterday in my blog Do Your Friends Know Each Other It Might be In Your Genes I provided a link to an article I found that suggested the way we make friends and whether our friends are also friends is intimately related.  It has set my brain twirling and i have since spent a lot [...]