Saturday afternoon, August 12th 2023, with the smell of wildfire sharp in my throat I picked wild blackberries. This was my Lammas/Lughnasadh celebration, my Eucharist with the place
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Tending Hope: Spiritual Practices for Apocalypse
There is an ancient tradition in the land of my ancestors of tending sacred flames (including the home hearth). This isn’t a unique practice to be sure, many
Tarot for Your Spiritual Journey
Tarot is one of those tools that no one is neutral on. There are those who think it is a tool of demon worship, or at best superstition,
Spiritual Bypassing & The Lie of Ease
There is a persistent falsehood being preached in the new age spiritual community. It isn’t a new lie. Christianity has its own version of it. Maybe it is
What is Spiritual Direction?
There are two questions I get most often as a spiritual director: What is it spiritual direction, anyway? And, isn’t it just someone telling you what to believe,
Embodied Awareness
As I write this we are slipping further into fall, down the seasonal slope into winter. The trees are dropping leaves, I definitely want the wool sweater in
Reclaiming Wonder
I wonder a lot. And by that of course I mean two things, I ruminate, cogitate, turn things over in my mind; and I am frequently struck with
Beyond the Myth of the Perfect Past
Human beings love antiquity, fetishize it even. That might seem like a strange thing to say here in the modern world so think for a moment. How many
Web of Gifting
The web of gifting was a term I was introduced to by Robin Wall Kimmerer in her book, Braiding Sweetgrass. It is a concept from Native American traditions
Reclaiming Our Creaturliness
Here in the West, infused in Christian culture (whether one practices Christianity or not) we have done a bad job of dealing with the fact that we are