Author name: Jim Reiter

Prefacing note:Permission to share this was obtained from Michael and Megan.  This preacher is beyond the days of sharing a family story… and, then, checking to see if that sharing was okay! Michael, our youngest, turned 30 this last weekend. …

Engaging in a workshop on crafting a Rule or rhythm of life and living with Steve Macchia, I found myself sharing the impression that I wanted and needed to “repent of” (i.e., get a new mind about) an old metaphor…

A recurring theme in my life and ministry through the years is the ways that community can be and is a “means of Grace” – a channel of the Divine’s saving me.  Coming along to confirm – if not amend…

In a session of the Spiritual Directors International series, “Making Our Way as Spiritual Directors,” Lucy Abbott Tucker shared how as a young girl she had “heard a very stirring homily about perfection”: And [so], I decided it was my…

Some time ago, I came across this TED Talk by writer and comedian James Veitch — narrating a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal. Inspired by or, perhaps, baited by…

At this juncture between Martin Luther King’s birthday (January 16) and International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) — and the open-mindedness and sensitivity and justice they mutually engender, I find myself drawn to the notion of “waking up” and affirming…

Celebrating Mary Oliver…and the “Means of Grace” Which is Poetry Remembering the life and legacy of Mary Oliver this week (on the anniversary of her death on January 17, 2019) has me celebrating the means of grace which is poetry. …

Celebrating Brother Lawrence:Patron Saint of the Menial & Mundane Today (January 11) is the feast day of Brother Lawrence.  I’d like to think of him as the patron saint of the mundane. Born in 1611, Nicholas Herman of Lorraine entered…

Immersing Ourselvesin “The Baptism of Our Lord” Prefacing Note:Over early drafts of this post, I have streamlined the discussion for a faster read.  Those wanting a fuller immersion in background considerations are encouraged to view the footnotes. As I move…