Lent is just not the same this year. Many people value the practice of receiving ashes on their foreheads. In past years in urban areas, clergy have stood on street corners offering ashes-to-go to anyone who wanted them. This year, many churches have no services or are open for limited… Read More »Three Spiritual Practices for Lent during the Pandemic
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One aspect of my spiritual practice is something called “spiritual reading.” It’s a contemplative practice of slowly reading an inspirational text and allowing it to speak to or captivate me in some way. When the pandemic began in Spring of 2020, I turned to The Revelations of Divine Love by… Read More »Spiritual Nourishment in a Pandemic
Over the last two decades, experts in organizational psychology and behavior have studied how people, organizations, and larger social systems manage change. While there are various models that describe change, there are some clear markers common among those models that are found in the process of change. Even when people… Read More »Change, Fear, and Division
Facebook and Twitter: those are social media platforms I mostly use. LinkedIn – I have an account, but don’t find it very helpful for my work. While my younger friends all use Instagram, I haven’t gotten on to it. Perhaps that’s because I don’t take many pictures, either of myself… Read More »It’s an Ordinary Life
I’ve heard it said repeatedly in the last week: “This is not who we are.” But clearly, it is who we are. Denying the reality of it doesn’t make it go away. The opposite is true: the only way to get past the division is to recognize it, face it,… Read More »Healing the Nation: A Call to a Change of Heart and Mind
Ending the Christmas season is the celebration of the Epiphany. It marks the arrival of astrologers who followed a star to find the Christ. They believed that the rising of a new star marked a significant event, so they followed the star to find out what this event might be.… Read More »January 6: The Epiphany (or the Manifestation) of the Christ
Out with the old and in with the new. The old year, 2020, was difficult for many people. Well, surely that’s an understatement! The pandemic and political upheaval have left many people in grief, facing uncertainty, isolation, distrusting of not only the government but of other people, as well as… Read More »Remembering 2020 and the Road to 2021
