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February 29, 2012
My First Patheos Column
My first installment of "Let the Earth Keep Silence," my column with Patheos, has been published! Here is a link to read it for yourself: Before the Jesus Prayer: John Cassian and Early Christian Contemplation
February 28, 2012
My apologies!
I am embarrassed! And truly sorry.
As many of my good readers know, I recently changed hosts for my blog, from wordpress.com to wordpress.org. This was supposed to be a transparent process. Today, however, there was a glitch that affected the subscribers to this blog. This morning I imported all my old posts from the old server to the new one. What was NOT supposed to happen — but did, alas — was for announcements on these posts to be sent out to subscribers.
I was appalled when I realized...
Spiritual Advice from the East
The Mantram Handbook
If we really want to make progress on the spiritual path, there is no substitute for putting others first. It is the give-and-take of innumerable little encounters with others in our daily life that really wears off the angles and corners of the ego. Unless we reduce our self-will like this, we will simply have too wide a load of self-will to get through some of the strait and narrow gates into our deeper consciousness.
Eknath Easwaran is probably best known as the...
February 27, 2012
Monday Morning Again
It's Monday morning. For some of us, it's the beginning of another hectic week. Others might be facing the challenge of looking for employment, or creating meaning and purpose in the face of retirement or long-term disability. Wherever your life's journey might have taken you to reach this morning, I invite you to consider the sheer grace of the present moment. Every day is filled with promise and possibility. That might be easier to see on Sunday morning, when we take the time to nurture...
February 26, 2012
Brigit of Kildare's Spiritual Practice
Celtic Spirituality
One day holy Brigit needed to attend a gathering of the people for a compelling practical reason, and she sat in her chariot, which was drawn by two horses. As she sat in her vehicle, she practiced on earth the life of heaven, as was her custom, by contemplative meditation, and prayed to her Lord.
Thus wrote Cogitosus, the seventh-century Irish monk who authored the earliest biography of Saint Brigit. It is included in Oliver Davies' wonderful anthology Celtic Spirituality
February 25, 2012
Prays Well With Others
Here is a sweet little graphic that has been making the rounds on Facebook. I actually copied this image off a fundamentalist Christian website that is hostile to interspirituality, sad to say. I thought it deserved a friendlier home, so I'm reposting it here. I couldn't find where it originates — if anyone knows, please drop me a line or leave a comment here, so I can give credit where credit is due.
February 24, 2012
A Celtic Lenten Story
Once, St. Brigit and two of her sister nuns were travelling during Lent, and it so happened that they were offered hospitality by a pagan chieftain whose land they were passing through. They gathered at the chieftain's house, only to be surprised by a dinner including pork. The two sisters immediately protested, explaining that their Lenten fast prohibited them from eating any type of meat. At that, Brigit stood up, grabbed each of her sisters, and roughly threw them out of the house. She...
February 22, 2012
"Let the Earth Keep Silence" launches on February 29!
I'm pleased to announce that my column on contemplative spirituality, Let the Earth Keep Silence, will launch on Patheos.com next Wednesday, February 29! I'll post links to the column here once it goes live. Of course, I have some interesting plans for this blog as well, that I will slowly roll out over the months to come. If you haven't already done so, please subscribe to the blog feed (see the "Subscribe to Blog via Email" widget located to the right of this blog feed).
February 7, 2012
Interviewing Fran
Follow this link to watch a video that my wife Fran and I recently recorded for Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters. This video features me interviewing Fran as she tells the story of the spiritual lessons that have shaped her experience of giving birth to, and raising, Rhiannon, who suffers from multiple disabilities. Hope you enjoy it.
January 27, 2012
Welcome
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