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Living with Trauma, Spirituality, and Healing

Most people don’t recognize it, but many of us live with the effects of trauma.  Trauma disrupts our lives and our sense of normalcy. Today, I’m discussing both the prevalence of trauma and how spiritual practice can help to bring us to greater healing after traumatic events.

Hope: A Practice for Life

What gives you hope? Can you be hopeful when difficult, overwhelming life events occur? How can we nurture hope in our lives?  What are the connections among hope, spirituality, and daily life?  Join me to explore these questions.


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The Christmas Story and 2020

How can things go so badly?  I suspect most people have asked a question like that during 2020.  There are the pandemic and the cascade of problems that have come with it like economic hardship, unemployment, disruption of education from pre-K through university life, businesses closing offices with people now… Read More »The Christmas Story and 2020

Seasons of Change

I stumbled out of bed one morning this week and into the bathroom a bit after 7:00 AM.  It occurred to me that it seemed unusually dark.  I somehow hadn’t noticed that sunrise is coming later and our days are growing shorter.  As I looked outside, I saw that the… Read More »Seasons of Change

Finding Hope

I talk to my friend every few weeks.   We met over twenty years ago when we lived in the same city. Now we live at opposite ends of the country, so our contact is mostly by phone and email. Every few weeks, we have a long conversation in which we… Read More »Finding Hope

Suffering in Our Time

Over the last month, I’ve had video call conversations with over two dozen individuals I’ve never met in person.  They are all graduate students enrolled in doctoral programs at the university where I teach.  They live throughout North America and have been sheltering at home under various kinds of restrictions. … Read More »Suffering in Our Time