Happy Summer everyone! It's time for another look at what's been lighting me up this week. A lot of my reading time and 'spirituality' time is still going to research for my Summer blog series. Despite the effort involved (and getting caught in a thunderstorm on a library run Wednesday!), it's still been a lot … Continue reading What’s Lighting Me Up (June 21, 2025)
[This month I'm revisiting an old series on vocation. I hope you enjoy the post below, which is a slightly edited version of what I first posted in 2022] Before ending this series on vocation, we need to look at the all-important topic of spiritual discernment. It’s all well and good for us to talk … Continue reading Vocation and Discernment [Revisited]
[This month I'm revisiting my 2022 series on vocation.] The common theme in this series on vocation has been that our vocations are from God and for the community. We’ve seen both these elements in every level of vocation: The calling to bear the image and likeness of God isn’t about puffing us up, but … Continue reading Vocation and Community [Revisited]
[This June I'm revisiting my 2022 series on vocation. The text below is a slightly edited version of that post; if I have anything to add, I'll come back at the end of the post.] The amazing twentieth-century Black theologian Howard Thurman tells a story of meeting with his advisor at his predominantly white seminary. … Continue reading Vocation in the Real World [Revisited]
In the Western tradition, today, the Sunday after Pentecost, is known as Trinity Sunday. It’s one of the few Church holy days that commemorates a concept rather than an event in the life of Christ or great saint of history. The doctrine of the Trinity as we know it was formalized in the fourth century … Continue reading From Before the Foundation of the World: A Reflection on Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31
Matthew Root 