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HuffPost: Hail Cross
04/03/2010 | Continue Reading | Share & Bookmark

Practicing Christians have just concluded their forty days of spiritual renewal, weeks of laboring to transform those habits of mind and heart that ever keep us from living in the likeness of Christ. For those of us who engage the support of a… Continue reading at The Huffington Post →

HuffPost: St. Patrick, One of Christianity’s Earliest Liberation Theologians
03/17/2010 | Continue Reading | Share & Bookmark

In the wake of St. Patrick’s Day, I am left wondering about the man who “baptized” my lineage. Not long after our arrival in New York, my mother took me to my first parade: a rite of passage. I was awed, not for the saint, but all those horses! In… Continue reading at The Huffington Post →

HuffPost: Be the Road That Brings Us Home
03/12/2010 | Continue Reading | Share & Bookmark

Strange to be looking out on a frost bound garden this winter evening laboring to compose an interior desert, but that is once again – as for Christians all over the world – the intentional Lenten work. Easily the most… Continue reading at The Huffington Post →

Advent 09
12/06/2009 | Continue Reading | Share & Bookmark

The season comes around again for simple, quiet beginnings. For Christians this is the start of a new year, at least in the soul realm – a time of doing the deep heart’s work of recovering our “original face” before we were born. If one finds their way to what my sister Ann calls “the mythos gate” * and learns…

A Vow of Conversation
10/25/2009 | Continue Reading | Share & Bookmark

Some time ago I had the joy of spending a few days of retreat in Thomas Merton’s hermitage at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. I could hardly believe I was actually there sitting at his Shaker desk, looking out his window at the very sky he had seen, the trees, the deer and birds. All of a sudden those writings on…