What “toast, boast, and oath” might you offer this January?

The journey toward inner truth is too taxing to be made solo.

There is room here for each and every one. Come in. Be among us.

I encouraged my students to question authority, especially my authority, because only rarely can we recognize our biases without help.

We—you and I—are in-between right now

What’s your most memorable story about getting lost? What do you remember about finding your way home?

We all want to feel at home, somewhere, somehow....

Mental illness is a spiritual problem as well as a psychiatric one.

I believe in your grace and protection and cannot imagine them slipping through the cracks.

Sometimes love is simply letting someone else like what they like.

It can be a lonely time for those of us whose arms are empty.

Can I do it again? Do I even dare? Do I have the strength? Because the cradle might be empty—again.

The stories remind us there is still and always joy in this world, but it usually comes right alongside the struggle.

When we feel overwhelmed, we gather to find a path, to find new ways forward.

The most life-giving coping strategy—for me—is to attune to a voice calmer and wiser than mine, and allow that seeking to be its own expression of faith.

I’m confident in our human ability to together muscle our way into renewing our world.

an original retelling Daedalus was a brilliant inventor, and he had made a career, even a legend of himself for being able to create the seemingly impossible. So when he decided to escape from his tower prison by flying over the ocean like a bird, his son, Icarus, had no doubt he would do it. It...

If we aren’t willing to ask the important, uncomfortable, and even scary questions, we won’t get to larger and deeper truths.

In every person we meet, especially those who cause us discomfort, we find an opportunity for us to grow, to learn, to go further along the path of transformation that is our purpose in life. Every single one is our teacher. May the next week bring you many such moments of meeting that help you...

What I do know for sure is that hope matters. One of the best things we can do is to hold hope for someone when that person cannot hold it for themselves.