As I mentioned the other day, in some ways this series that I’m calling “Soul Speech” circles back on the first ever series I did here, in which I spent a whole year undertaking different sacred practices. And one of the very firsts posts I wrote here was on today’s topic: journaling as a sacred … Continue reading Soul Speech: Journaling
If you’ve been following along the blog this week, you’ll know that during this Easter season I’m working more intentionally with practices that engage the realm of the imaginative and symbolic. I thought it would be interesting to carry that on in today's reflection. If you’re not comfortable with such approaches, please check out a … Continue reading Break Through: A Reflection on John 20.19-31
Back in 2020 I wrote a series I called “Sanctified Imagination,” which was all about not just the acceptability of using the imagination in the life of faith, but the importance and even necessity of doing so. I felt so strongly about it that I reposted the series intact in 2023. As I wrote in … Continue reading Soul Speech: In Defense of Imagination
Alleluia! Christ is risen! I hope you all had a blessed Lent, impactful Holy Week, and beautiful Easter. My Lent was excellent, but between writing daily posts here, a busy time at work, and having the great medieval theologian St. Bonaventure as my Lenten companion, it was also very ‘heady’. And there’s nothing wrong with … Continue reading Soul Speech: Introduction
Alleluia! Christ is risen! We’ve spent this whole Lenten and Holy Week Season reflecting on prayers and hymns of the Church. Today on this most sacred and special day of the year, I can think of no better set of hymns than the Orthodox Paschal Stichera, better known by its first line, “Let God arise!” … Continue reading Let God Arise! A Reflection for Easter 2026
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