Tag: Discernment

  • Out of the Way

    Out of the Way

    Episode 26. May 27, 2022

  • Changed

    Changed

    In times of conflict or great disruption, we are always asking ourselves how will we be changed. But the process changes us.

  • Ashes–remembering we are dust

    Ashes–remembering we are dust

    Ash Wednesday challenges us to see the depth of our delusions of grandeur: our enslavement to our own egos.

  • My 3 Words for 2022

    My 3 Words for 2022

    Three words to guide the year. Join with others writing #my3words for 2022 and make a resolution that will stick.

  • Do I Have a Choice?

    Do I Have a Choice?

    The one rule about church we had growing up was that we had to go on Sundays. Not that we had to pay attention or like it. We didn’t have to memorize or make public commitments. There was no witnessing or professing our faith. I never saw this as a hurdle or an unreasonable expectation.…

  • The Impractical Life

    The Impractical Life

    At some point we have to pick. Some pick at three. I’m a golfer. Or at seventy-three. I’m a priest. We pick a path. A life. Too often, though, we let a life pick us. [bctt tweet=”‘How will you help change the world?’” nofollow=”yes”] I always struggled with the question of what I want to be when I grow…

  • The Beasts and the Angels

    How Jesus’s time in the wilderness reminds us of our own journey. So this thing we call The Temptation of Jesus isn’t really about temptation, or about the Tempter or about GOD and the problem of evil at all. It’s about experience, creation, and GOD. It is about living in this world that GOD has…

  • Preparing in Advent is not about shopping or avoiding Hell

      Those of us who live in the north are reminded this time of year to put together an emergency kit. We put in a flashlight, hand warmers, something to kneel on, jumper cables, and more into a box that we keep in the trunk for the next few months. Because we never know when…