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Listening to Dr. Steve Porter (delivering this year’s Heinmiller Lectures on Spiritual Formation at Nazarene Theological Seminary, via Zoom) has given me vocabulary for a distinction I have increasingly sensed these last few years in my life and living. There…

In several settings, I have heard Trevor Hudson share a story which he first heard from Carlos Vallas, a Jesuit priest working in India: Once while cycling through the warm Indian countryside, Carlos became aware of a strange stillness in…

I am looking forward to being part of a leadership team — hoping to serve the needs of weary United Methodist pastoral leaders of the Texas Annual Conference at a retreat next week in Galveston.  (So much has happened over…

Prefacing Note…     On the other side of a full and eventful season of life, I/we return to this blog… and, more importantly, to a time and a space for a more reasonable rhythm of life and living.     In late September,…

August is my least favorite month of the year.  There…I said it. (Well, wrote it.) Typically, I’m not one to wish away time. But, after what is always a hot and humid summer in Texas, by August my spirit tends…

“Feast” (as in the Feast Days of a Saint) has always had me thinking of a banquet held in honor of a beloved soul.  “Let’s raise a toast in honor of St. so-and-so,” I muse.  With today (July 31) being…

In Sleeping with Bread: Holding What Gives You Life (Paulist Press, 1995), Dennis, Sheila, and Matt Linn share that… During the bombing raids of World War II, thousands of children were orphaned and left to starve. The fortunate ones were…

In a meeting last week, Leadership Transformations’ Matt Scott spoke of his desire to live with hands less clinched and grasping… more open. It was an outward symbol of a deeper Grace he sought: wanting to detach from secondary things……

The second week — or “section,” as each section occupies several literal weeks — of The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola is focused on the events of the life and ministry of Jesus.  As Trevor Hudson puts it,…