• Quit Often — and the need for skillful change

    Quit Often — and the need for skillful change

    Our culture’s myths around work, responsibility and purpose leave us fragile. We need to build up the skill of quitting better.

  • Resolutions Again?

    Resolutions Again?

    Episode 62 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Choosing Jesus over comfort

    Choosing Jesus over comfort

    In this week’s gospel, we see Jesus call Philip and Nathaneal. For us, the challenge lies in recognizing how much we call each other.

  • Being Called—for Epiphany 2B

    Being Called—for Epiphany 2B

    Part of the challenge of connecting with the divine (and one another) is that we forget that even God isn’t doing all of the work.

  • Find—living a life of seeking

    Find—living a life of seeking

    The power in resolutions is in the desire; to be better and to change. Doing the work of changing is just a part of living.

  • Between the First and Second Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    Between the First and Second Sunday of Epiphany (Year B)

    In the calling of Nathanael, we jump past the call stories we’re familiar with—and into a vision of an active relationship with Jesus.

  • More than wise men

    More than wise men

    In the Epiphany, we focus on the light to the exclusion of the dark, celebrating the fools and rather than the hope Christ brings.

  • Next—what comes after baptism

    Next—what comes after baptism

    We always focus on the thing. And then, when it comes, our focus needs to shift. And we aren’t always thinking about what comes next.