Author name: Jim Reiter

Sources out there tell us that “Holy Humor Sunday” or “Bright Sunday” has been variously observed across the centuries during the first days and weeks after Easter – testimony to the conviction of many of our early Church Parents (Fathers…

Personal and ministry interests have had me engaging some of Richard Rohr’s cross-cultural analysis of male spirituality and initiation rites.  (cf., Adam’s Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation and From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality)…

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither has there entered into the heart of man, the things God has prepared for them that love Him.”  (1 Corinthians 2:9) In Our Greatest Gift (Harper One, 2009, pp. 18-19), Henri Nouwen…

Sue Monk Kidd calls it “quickaholic spirituality”—the notion, amplified in and by a culture of instant gratification, that there ought to be some drive-thru or microwave (some kind of abbreviated path or recipe) by which we can arrive at spiritual…

Chocolat (released in 2000) is the story of a chocolatier who upsets the rigid morality of a rural village in France during Lent.  By movie’s end, we affirm that giving up chocolate for Lent is easy.  It’s the deeper attitudes…

Lent is a good time to take inventory of the rhythms of our lives and living – including and particularly the fundamental movements and rituals of our spiritual lives. It’s among the things we discuss in the exploration entitled “Developing…

A host of streams have converged – setting me on a pilgrimage to my true, authentic self in God.  (I reflect upon these streams — and encourage others to do the same for themselves—in that Zoe-Life Exploration which is “Homecoming:…

Oh, the untouchable Joy (even here and now) of those who declare spiritual bankruptcy; they are in a position where Grace and God can do something! The reactions of some had me second-guessing this, my own translation of the first…

“What are you going to give up for Lent?!”: it’s a question which many will ask in coming days. It’s only one question, though, which we should be about asking in these days. Equally important is the question of “What…