Listening to My Life...

I won't be able to blog much about this one. The things it touches on are too much to share. But I cannot recommend it enough. It is a s...

(I was asked to testify in church today about my own experience with the spiritual discipline of simplicity . Here is what I said...) When I...

* Sleep in -- check. * Big latte to start the day -- check. * Two hours of unhurried reading after a big hot breakfast -- check. * 4.5 m...

I have had the unexpected pleasure of reconnecting lately in two different situations with some very old friends. It is surprising and wonde...

I am running across so many great quotes this summer... here's one I cannot help but share:

My church, Free Methodist Church of Santa Barbara , asked me to write a study guide on the spiritual discipline of solitude for this month -...

With a little breathing room in my life I am unpacking some of my stuff from my trip earlier this month to Italy. Here is a brief quote I re...

This holiday weekend has been wonderfully relaxing and full of favorite things... some of them won't surprise you... cooking , riding my...

As I mentioned right before Thanksgiving , I started a new devotional at the beginning of Advent. It has been a wonderful spiritual map for ...

Yesterday was a hearty day of learning for me. It started in my Foundations of the Faith class at Providence Hall. We finished up a month-lo...

I've been cruising through 1 Timothy this week. There have been so many stunning verses. But these two in chapter 6 press in on me: Run ...

I'm in a new Bible study with some great friends -- some old, some new. We are reading Benedict's Way (by Homan & Pratt) togeth...

If you are feeling stressed, busy, overwhelmed, tense, this is a profound reminder: The point is clear: there is to be no time, no thing, th...

"Silence has two functions. The first effect of exterior silence is to develop a sense of interior peace. The second value of silence i...

I had an article published online with YMToday this week . They contacted me, asking me to contribute an article related to keeping Sabbath ...

I feel like I heard from God this morning in a couple of nice ways... First from Henri Nouwen quote of the day: A Still Place in the Market ...