My take on the new practice of composting human remains and spreading them around the garden as if they’re nothing more than leaves, dead chipmunks and tree branches. I told a friend recently that as a trained clinical psychologist and past practitioner of psychotherapy, and as an ordained clergy with pastoral experience hearing confessions and…

Despite the surprise tribulations of our weekly lives, we still can raise our voices and our hearts together. I can still see that morning sun rise up over my mountain, knowing deep down in my heart that our lives are deeply blessed. Two weeks or so ago, I traveled over to Wintergreen Resort – that…

I try not to indulge in political controversy in these blogs – how to not wins friends or influence people, right? But OK, allow me just this one time, all right? I try not to indulge in political controversy in these blogs – how to not wins friends or influence people, right? But OK, allow…

It isn’t just gratitude, but all the social virtues such as compassion, forgiveness, humility, justice, and kindness that are life-giving to the self and to others around you. The potential is there within each of us, but the seeds need to get planted by others. Once in a while I am seized by a cleaning-out-closets-and-drawers…

Faith in life, faith in God, faith in some Truth that shines in the dark, is based on the hope that is in us. I mentioned in my last blog that I have recently remarried – to a wonderful man, a widower, with three grown sons. The wedding itself was glorious (see lead photo), followed…

For those of you who regularly read my blogs – or for the occasional visitor – I acknowledge that it’s been about two months since I posted my last one. The reason is because I have been otherwise preoccupied with preparing for and then getting remarried … to a wonderful man who has given me…

I recently taught a two-part series on prayer at St. Martin’s, and the second class had to do with meditation and silent prayer. Coincidentally, on the nightstand by my bed that evening was a new book by Martin Copenhaver titled The Gospel in Miniature: Meditations for When You Have a Minute (Skylight Paths Publishing, 2018).…

Thinking about silence itself has prompted me to write about silence and its practice in my own life … and maybe in yours. I have to say that these days I almost prefer silence to listening to the blat of talking heads expounding about either the virtues or sins of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. No, this…