Valentines day is coming soon! I’m sure your aware as it’s one of the top marketed holidays in this country. I always like to remind people that St. Valentine got his head chopped off for his beliefs…

A blessing for Tyre Nichols based on the Book of Revelation…

God is a circle whose circumference is nowhere, whose center is everywhere…

The thing about the Christian Liturgical calendar is that it’s an annual mystery…

I was having breakfast at Romeo’s - once known as the Pancake Palace - in Salida, CO recently and spent much of breakfast eavesdropping…

Blessed are the mothers and the ones who mother, Blessed are the ones who tend to every need…

Big news in Colorado; Prop 122 passed which more or less decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms for personal and especially therapeutic use..

I used to consider myself a super mega extrovert. Always the first to show up at a party, the loudest and brightest one in the room, and the last to leave…

I had an experience this week where my friend called me in the middle of a crisis. Like a real crisis; one where there’s no right thing to say but presence makes all the difference…

The first time I heard someone hand something over to Spirit was in a drum circle in Santa Fe…

We’ve all had endings in our lives, some good, some lucky, some terrible. But we have very little guidance on how to actually do endings…

In ancient Chinese, the word for magnet translates as ‘a stone with love.’ This concept comes from the Chinese Taoist tradition of people who simply studied nature and the universe to figure out how things worked within us…

There’s probably no person on this planet who doesn’t understand at least a little about karma. We all know that when a jerk cuts you off in traffic he’s got some reallll bad karma headed his way, right?

Christianity has become a bit stodgy, don’t you think? Or at least some modern American christianities. I’m explicit about there being multiple christianities because the spiritual teachings of first century Jesus are a far cry from Focus on the Family…

The New York Times recently reported that when Queen Elizabeth II died, her beekeper went and told the bees. Like, as a courtesy. I don’t know if there’s anything more charming in all of 2022 than this…

There’s a little trick I’ve been taught for how to handle resentments. You pray for them; specifically you pray for them to have what you want in life…

There are a lot of things I like to make my Higher Power over the course of the day. I’ll usually give my sanity and serenity over to traffic, a friend who didn’t text back right away, my partner multiple times a day…

In the wake of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade yesterday I offer you this blessing. May you know that - as Christ taught us between the cross and the tomb - the worst thing is not the last thing….

So I fancy myself someone who is pretty good at whatever I put my mind to. Recently I decided I was good at hot yoga. You know the one; a hundred plus degree room, high humidity, lots of sweat, and no breathing through your mouth….

Ever tried to predict your own future, let alone the future of politics or economics or our shared future? Guessing outcomes has become something of a risky bet the past few years, both in the personal and global…