For me, “surrendering everything tenderly” brings an awareness of grace.

I want to be shaped in a way that lets me serve the eternal.

The wilderness alongside every moment, sprawling in each direction, holds more than the silence that theologians imagine of God.

An adequate Christmas would have you calm and open, taking it in, accepting whatever is. Slow it all down like you might be, in some way, attuned to the pace of the Eternal. If you need, you can fake it at first.

What's my favorite weather? When the wind whips your face, you're alive, and you can think what you will.

"The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature, it must seek God, who is love." —Mechthild of Magdeburg, 13th century Germany For twelve years, Daisy has been the...

.I want liberty and justice for all in my country. That will ask of me—and of many of you—the discipline of discomfort.

Those of us with some privilege in this empire may be tempted to seek refuge in it, as if privilege was ever going to save us. But who’s to say whether you’ve come to this place and position for a time such as this?

Our whole life is a series of signs. Any slight action: a dim semaphore. Our redemption, if it happens, will mean somebody tried.