Amazing Love

If this coming week is about anything, it’s about amazing Love. A practice that I recently read about and started doing sounds a little syrupy, but the re...

Friday Florilegium

I’ve been immersed in Karl Barth on prayer for the past 6 weeks, gearing up to write another dissertation chapter. Here are two tidbits: “[There is ...

Birth

  Stars in eyes, I follow hope to a tiny one, enclosed in atoms in whose power atoms live. The Word at heart now wordless, but for cries, joining beast and...

Friday Florilegium

For this week’s Florilegium, here is a stunning time-lapse video of Yosemite’s beauty. (Please click the pause button on Music for Dreaming to the r...

{Day 2} The Friendly Beasts

The Psalmist writes, “Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths. You save people and animals alike, O LORD.̶...

Friday Florilegium

I’ve listened to and sung this hymn for years, but recently, it finally took up residence in that deep space of my heart where only a few songs gain entra...

Night bus companions

I got on the 71 in the University District after an enjoyable dinner with my friend Julia.  Riding a Seattle bus from the Ave to downtown at night never fails t...

Living in the Peaceable Kingdom

Each Thursday during Lent, I offer a vegan recipe as I learn to cook and like vegetables, and as I contemplate what it means to live non-violently. In my heart,...

Living in the Peaceable Kingdom

(No food photos this week, but instead, an even better example of the peaceable kingdom: a photo of my godson Ben sleeping, just after his baptism this past Sun...