spirituality

Years ago I was very good at hope. I could hope for a more celebrated position, flatter abs, or to cross the finish of Ironman. I was also good at setting goals to achieve these ends: I put my head down and knocked them off.

The elation of accomplishing these goals and garnering a little attention for my efforts was a great high, but unfortunately it did not usually last long.

There are specific and cunning temptations in silence that, if allowed to flourish, can fester and rot the whole enterprise.

I don't settle automatically into the silence of solitude. At first the silence can be as startling as noise.

As we read about the rise of the spiritual but not religious, how do we respond? Do we think of it as a threat? A challenge? Or do we resonate with the category?

“Silence gives me freedom in both real time and psychic time. When I talk less, I see more. And silence gives me time to pray.”

In this splendid book Belden Lane has made a double contribution—to the
reordering of our perspectives on creation and to our understanding of
the Reformed tradition as a contributor to this reordering.

The architecture of Naked Spirituality is a bit complicated. But if you can bear with it, you'll find that Brian McLaren offers countless insights.

Stretches of emptiness are not unusual in life, nor in the life of faith.

Just as I’ve come to appreciate how seasons transform the land, I’ve also become aware of my internal landscape. The two seem bound together in many ways.

I want
to arrive at the kind of equilibrium admired by the
disciples who broke down the barrier to St. Anthony's fortress. To do this, I have to befriend the demons dwelling in the cave of my heart.

Richard Rohr has written his most sage, most important book yet. Its message is straightforward and bracing: the spiritual life is not static.