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[Prefacing Note: This post represents a third installment (of four) on Joy as it is characterized in Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians [what some have called the “epistle of joy”… for all the ways the word appears throughout its four…

[Prefacing Note: This post represents a second installment (of four) on Joy as it is characterized in Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians [what some have called the “epistle of joy”… for all the ways the word appears throughout its four…

A carry-over from “Holy Humor Sunday” is seeing Easter as a perfect season to engage and ponder God’s gift of Joy. (For this reason, we’ve decided, at the churches I am “supplying” through the end of June, to focus on…

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…