SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES

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I explore intimacy with our Creator to discover what we were created for

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Spiritual EMDR?

I led a group this week where we were talking about the practices of gratitude and lament. As we listened to Psalm 22 being read, we...

Don’t Pooh-Pooh My Spiritual Discipline of (English) Haiku

*Originally posted on a Fuller Theological Seminary blog on August 24, 2017 I stumbled upon a new spiritual discipline this week. I was...

Learning to Listen: Examen Prayer

As I mentioned previously, the Examen Prayer (or as St. Ignatius called it, the Examination of Conscience) is one of two key spiritual...

There's a Pandemic in the Church and It's Not Covid

There is a soul sickness in the Church that stems from substituting knowledge about God for intimacy with God. It has led us to a new...

Learning to Listen: Lectio Divina

I have never been a disciplined person; I thrive on spontaneity and surprises. This means, as a lifelong church attender and Christian, I...

Hatching a Pandemic Plan

The idea of incubation has been…well, incubating, in my mind. It seems to me that we are in an incubation period of sorts. First, an...

Learning to Listen: The Basics, Part II

I grew up in a highly conservative faith tradition, where the church history I learned stretched all the way back to…gasp!…Lottie Moon in...

Learning To Listen: The Basics

At the heart of what I want to do is to help us learn two things: who God is and who we are. This means we will need to learn how to see...

Better or Bitter?

There was a Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist named Viktor Frankl who wrote a book called Man’s Search for Meaning. In it, he shared...