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What the Bleep Do We Know? is the name of a popular and award-winning documentary that came out in 2004. (In 2010, it was released in a book form by Health Communications Inc.) It sought to explore the spirituality embedded…

Through the years, as I have been stuck in finding the next good read, I’ve resorted to googling “top 10 lists” for a given year or genre.  In a related vein, in various settings, I (Jim) have posed the question…

I am no real veteran of the Labyrinth. Books on the phenomena dot my library.  But, they are practically untouched. “I’ll get to them one of these days.” This is not to say that I am entirely clueless when it…

If pressed for a definition (at this point in my life), I’d say that a mystic is one who sees Jesus — the Way, Truth and Life of God — in the depths of who we are and in the…

Prefacing Note:       Our newest issue of Ruminations (focused on the gifts of All Saint’s Day) came out this week—a couple of weeks before November 1… in the hopes that it might support the work of pastors and small groups in…

Listening to a Richard Rohr homily on Luke 5:1-11 (Don’t Be Afraid of Yourself), I could not help but overhear the implications for our journeys of and in spiritual formation. Here is the reminder that Spiritual Formation (life with and…

“It just makes you feel good inside”: the pitch of a Houston mega-church a few years ago. While I can appreciate the word play (“feels good inside” the sanctuary, “feels good inside” my heart), I rail at the sentiment it…

In episode 222 of her “Faith Conversations” podcast, Anita Lustrea interviews Michelle Van Loon on her most recent book, Becoming Sage: Cultivating Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality in Midlife. More than enough to chew on – material which resonates with other…

38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to…