It rained yesterday and the night before. This is news in southern California. Suddenly the world seemed “mud-luscious” and “puddle wonderful.” With perfect synchronicity, a friend from the perennially precipitating Northwest posted Read more [...]

Hey Goodpeople— Since Easter is a season not a day, here is a 2009 reflection on one aspect of Practicing Resurrection: http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2009/12/03/simplcity-helps-us-see-the-essential/ Here’s to eastering, Dan Read more [...]

Earlier this week I received the January/February copy of Spirituality, a Dominican journal from Dublin that I like for its content and its aesthetic appeal. They published a short piece that I wrote a few years ago and had online as a post. In case you Read more [...]

. . . continued from yesterday To cultivate and live a life of spiritual depth means consciously to become a spiritual spelunker. It involves, to borrow Henri Nouwen’s evocative term from the upwardly mobile 1980’s, taking the path of “downward Read more [...]