Lessons in (in)efficiency from work at a retreat center.
In praise of an architectural feature and the habits it engenders.
Thank you for your miraculous help.
A meditation on changing expectations for time and spiritual disciplines.
The back story and a liturgy for a series of services of lament held by Peace Christian Reformed Church in South Holland, Illinois.
Pondering some of the paradoxes in the relationship between humans and animals.
Cultivating the texture of life, recipe in hand.
On spaces of encounter at the University of Toronto.
Notes from a three-hour vigil in a downtown Columbus church on September 11, 2001.
Searching for transformation in Joshua Tree National Park.
A Christian walks into a Buddhist temple...
The existential crisis of the summer camp altar call.
Meeting the Spirit again after a tragedy.
On reading the paper and selecting which stories to let in.
The value of local news as a lens for seeing the world.
Reading Psalm 147 with new eyes.
On making quilts as gifts for children.