The word ‘heal’ comes from Old English and Norse meaning to make whole, holy, and well. The number of times I forget in a day that I am anything but whole, holy, and well is way too high to count…

Ever read the Beatitudes? They’re sweet, if a little milquetoasty. Blessed are the meek? Sure, sure, sounds like a nice thing to say to folks when things aren’t going their way…

I’m doing a little tarot throwback to the Two of Swords to anchor my thoughts today. But first, I just got off the phone with my very favorite Tree (and People!) Chaplain who shared the prayer in the subject line: I hate this! I love this! Thank you!

Sabbath is another one of those things from scriptures that is kind of overlooked as just the ‘day off’ clause in Genesis. But if you pay close attention you’ll notice that something is missing from the seven-day creation story…

Over the past two years I’ve seen two general trajectories amongst my friends, which can be boiled down to one general choice. When the pandemic hit, did you or did you not pick up your spiritual practices?

Read the news lately? Not much helpful information there. Same with most things on social media. Two days ago, I went down a “green bean recipes” rabbit hole on pinterest, quickly ended up in the “detox” section, and found advice to breathe more because apparently most toxins get released through the lungs.

Mary Magdalene has made quite a resurgence the past few decades. Relegated for centuries to the role of demon-riddled woman and occasionally a prostitute who changed her ways when Jesus healed her, Mary Magdalene has mostly been used to severly punish and shame young women for, um, just being human…

I came across an article on millenial burnout recently by Anna Helen Peterson that begins, “I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.”

There are giant rivers of emotional frequencies criss-crossing this globe. There always have been and always will be. As a human being you can tap into these frequency at any time….

I’ve been listening to Making Gay History: Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis and feeling a lot of astonishment, grief, anger, and even joy at the beauty of the human life. The podcast is described like this…

Mary Magdalene is often seen as a supporting actress in the Jesus movie blockbuster. But what if she was actually the main role…?

One of my teachers, Rev. Leslie Nipps, wrote recently about mercy as a tool for transformation and asks ‘Have We Forgotten Mercy?’ It was a question that struck me immediately and made me realize that yes, I have forgotten mercy as one of my tools for healing…

Yesterday was the four year anniversary of my sobriety from alcohol. Like getting free from a bad relationship, I can look back now and see that alcohol was my worst best friend. But back then, I thought she was my best best friend…

There’s this funny thing that Angels say whenever they first appear to someone in the scriptures; “Be not afraid.” Which leads me to think that Angels are probably apocalyptically scary…

Some say the scriptures were fixed millenia ago and are the unerring Word of God. I say they are still being revealed in and through us today…

Autumn is the annual time for looking back, taking stock of summer crop, and recalling where we were this time last year. Which is a weird thing to do in 2021. Because in a certain way we’ve come so far, but in a deeper way we haven’t moved at all…

There’s nothing quite like the human body, especially when it comes to reproduction. Of all the people I know, and all the stories I’ve heard about their bodies, not a single one is the same…

One of the most common questions I get is, “How do you reconcile your queerness with your Christianity?” And I love this question so much, because the surprise answer is that there’s no need to reconcile them at all; they already go hand in hand…

I’ve been noticing that forgiveness is really a theme on the planet right now. What makes me say that? Because it seems like there are so many completely unforgivable things happening. Which usually means that Spirit is giving us a huge opportunity to practice something…

We’re living through a scarcity paradigm right now, though thankfully that is changing. Scarcity paradigms basically look like, “Not enough for you, barely enough for me, never enough for us…”