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“A life develops in spirals: It always passes through the same points, but at different levels of integration and complexity.” – Jean-P...

They thought they were safe that spring night when they daubed the doorways with sacrificial blood. To be sure, the angel of death passed th...

Life heats up again, and now it's about words and how they string together to spell community. On the burner are books -- compiling book...

It was a time when solitude grew on me grew me like the breeze blows on seedlings kindling them skyward. The sadness weighed me ...

Forgive me the repetition, but I wanted to post the "pulpit editorial" [oh boy...] I gave last Sunday. It was a hit. I have to s...

Since the universe wriggles like space-time jello, we two carrot sticks puddle somewhere in the vicinity of Mars, meeting on t...

I've been silent for a while. Lots of internal and external changes that I wanted to sit quietly and feel. Sometimes it feels like ice ...

Oh my . I've found the poet that fuses physics and spirituality in an intricate dance. I'm so infused with spirit, I think this is ...

Having come full circle on "going to church," I find myself trying again to name the thing that I'm once again admitting to my...

Now a popular hymn, this poem, "Mother Spirit, Father Spirit" was written by a Czech minister after he was taken by the Gestapo to...

This is my song, o God of all the nations, A song of peace for lands afar and mine. This is my home, the country where my heart is; Here are...

I forget how much wisdom is out there to remember. From his amazing Letters to a Young Poet , the ever-wise Rilke : [H]ave patience with e...

Courtesy Lisa (thank you!): How would it have been for us had they who taught the universe every bleary Sunday morning included with Hebrews...

Several trips to the dentist to replace a crown, and I'm left spinning thinking about teeth. Bones protruding from our fleshy gums. Was...

I'm underwater in another life-transition stage. But suddenly I feel like I'm always saying that. It's a perpetual state, and I...

“As we act, let us not become the evil we deplore.” -- Congresswoman Barbara Lee, in voting against the resolution for war in Iraq

Having come to the end (for now) of my academic quest, I'm finding myself thirsty these days for spiritual stories. There's a deadn...

From a beautiful sermon (9/10/06) by Rev. Christine Robinson of First Unitarian Church : When you embrace change as the not-always-easy fu...

The new grass rising in the hills,  the cows loitering in the morning chill,  a dozen or more old browns hidden  in the shadows of the cott...

Okay, so I found myself having one of "those" conversations this week. You know, the one where you find yourself spewing self-help...