Poems
Have We Lost the Desire to Listen?
It appears there is a lapsed instinct for interiority...For turning inward..
Essays
Faithful Art Making ~ Doubt as the Best Question
When artists are afraid to offer up their doubt in their art, its presence and resonance cease to announce its appearance.
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Curiosity’s Manifesto
Curiosity, a naturally meddlesome impulse, taps me on the shoulder very lightly
Poems
Being Alive at this Moment in Time
We must carry the questions as eloquently as the answers...
Essays
Love Behind the Doors
I am always moved into an acute sense of extreme sorrow when a friend calls or writes and shares the injustice of this journey.
Essays
The Beauty of Remembering ~ Recovering the Gifts of Living
Remembering is harkening backwards, an attempt to in part, stop the forgetting. Art making is not merely a nostalgic gaze at the past but a creative reply to the impulse of memory.
Essays
When the True Self Comes Home
We all long to be known. We hunger for contact with our deep inner beauty.
Essays
The Wisdom of No Escape ~ When Chaos is Good News
time, if indeed there is an actual time, when our childhood innocence is lost
Essays
The Beauty of the Ordinary ~ The Translucent Skin of Impermanence
We were designed to love impermanent things.
Essays
Deep Confession and the Sacred Messiness of Life
I serve a God who hides. There are times when regardless of my rituals or disciplines, the Father will not reveal himself.
Poems
A Song and the Will To Escape
Being trapped for years Before I was even aware of my condition I need a song now and then To help me remember How long my deepest aches and ambitions Were held ransom To some Read more…
Essays
The Unknowing of Belief ~ An Invitation to Childlike Faith
When faith is only an adherence to a set of propositions our once ”living beliefs” will grow cold and perfunctory.
Essays
The Beauty of Desiring God ~ Creativity as Spiritual Longing
s been said that thoughts are the ultimate pilgrims.
Essays
The Beauty of Desire
I have spent my entire life pursuing this desire for more than what is. - Thomas Moore The Soul’s Religion
Essays
The Artist as Disciple
In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work...
Essays
Sorrow’s Door
I am always moved into an acute sense of extreme sorrow when a friend calls or writes and shares the injustice of this journey.
Essays
Religious Education versus the Pilgrimage of the Soul
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
Essays
For Those in Search of a Story
story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot
Essays
The Deeper Promise – Belonging as Birthright
We have cluttered our lives with strategies for belonging...
Essays
Looking Deep into the Imposter’s Flaw ~ Embracing the Shadow Self as Process
Looking Deep into the Imposter’s Flaw
Essays
A Disappearing Act ~ Thoughts on Becoming Nothing and Everything
Thoughts on becoming nothing and everything...
Poems
The Prophetic Imagination & The Trickster Poet
Of late I have sought for a language of lamentation...