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Theology, After a Tornado

Hope for new life is real, because we have seen it grow from scarred earth.

Parachutes of Hope: Reflections on Lent, Baba Yaga, and Palestine

Every candle, every dance, repairs the cracks of the world.

My First House of Worship Was a Museum

The Met was my first house of worship. It’s where I did more than fall in love with art of all kinds. I fell in love with something I couldn’t express as a seven-year-old

How 18th-century Quakers led a boycott of sugar to protest against slavery

Buying items that are fair trade, organic, locally made or cruelty-free...

A Story for Proper 17A

Jeremiah opened his eyes. The first words to pop into his mind were ‘cozy...

Elder Wisdom – A deep time convergence of ancestral and place-based ecosystems

I request the guidance of my elder ancestors to be close with me as we walk this place again, introducing ourselves to the beings here. I ask them to help me greet the elders of this place, of tree and plant and bird and animal kin, and of the human ancestors who have been stewards here for millennia.

Your Mystical Powers

I have attained three supreme mystical powers. I am going to teach them to you, if you are ready

Living Alone

I’ll say this: sometimes a woman has a seed of waiting imbedded in her by circumstance and blood, her life a long exhalation of birthings until the last one out of the canal is herself alone. Sufficient and reveled in solitude.

The Power of Mystical Poetry

Those who awaken from the ego-driven, patriarchal dream of reality discover who and where they really are—divine beings in a divine world

Take Back The Magic

The test before me was between love and fear. Maybe all of life is about that choice. Maybe that’s what everything depends upon, the courage to choose love over fear even in the face of the unknown.

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Holding The Tension Of Opposites

If we attend only to that part of us which is Pure Spirit or Pure Awareness, what inevitably happens is that aspects of our embodied humanity, pieces of soul, and the lost ones of psyche and soma are located into the shadow.

Touchstones

Let me tell you the story of the Touchstones. It was just before 9/11. I had been holding a piece...

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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.

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