Spiritual direction is an ancient practice where an individual seeks guidance and support in their spiritual journey from a qualified and experienced spiritual director. "Director" is kind of a misnomer. It's more like spiritual companionship or a "soul friend." It involves a safe one-on-one relationship with a spiritual companion who offers a compassionate presence and listens attentively as the individual shares their spiritual journey.
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Finally! Someone said it.
Review: The Death of Omnipotence and the Birth of Amipotence, by Thomas Jay Oord. Published by SacraSage, 2023.
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Demons, Trauma and Bad Stories
Demons? I suppose in the context of this story, folks in a specific place and time, who knew little about various illnesses, physical and especially mental illness and trauma. Demons could have been the only tool in their toolbox to explain certain behaviours of a person who is really struggling.
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Faith of the Everyday
Once upon a time, there were two carpenters; framers to be precise. Each day they would arrive at the building site to pound nails, erect walls. The first, a glum man, was asked what he was doing. “I hammer nails,” he replied, looking sour. “Every day, hammer nails and more nails. Day in, day out,…
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Love Is and Why it Matters
ometimes, what we generally accept as the loving thing to do (with the best of intentions) can, in fact, be unloving. When we start with what love is, it helps shape the ways we choose to love.
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God Must Love
Today’s post explores the Big Idea of Essential Kenosis and what it tells us about the nature/character of God.
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The Heart is Deceitful? Not so Fast
The scriptures speak from many voices with different experiences and different contexts. So we need to be careful when we build a cornerstone of our theological worldview on a single verse. One such example is Jeremiah 17:9. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Is the heart deceitful?…
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Two Parades. The Lie of Sacred Violence
It was the beginning of Passover as Jesus and his friends headed to Jerusalem for the to celebrate Israel's liberation from Egypt. Word spread that He was on His way to the city. People ran out to meet this Jesus who was taking the land by storm, with his radical teachings of love; turning the…
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The Crazy Father
A father had two sons, and one of his sons came to him and said, “Dad, I have been thinking it’s time for me to leave and find myself. I need to figure out who I am and make my fortune, my own way in the world. So, I would like you to give me…
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‘Been There’, “Done That’ from a little further along the Way
Continuing my journey from deconstruction to reconstruction, it's interesting to recognize how I seem to have come full circle on things like giving, leadership, structures, scriptures, and mission... But this time from a different vantage point, recognizing that the “issue” wasn’t the issue per se, but rather the culturally-inherited and significant misunderstanding/misapplications of Love resulting…
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