This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY), as an installment in the weekly series, "Denim Spirit." Even with weeks to go before March is gone, and an impetuous April to endure before it … [Read more...]
Denim Spirituality for Any Day of the Week
Kneading the dough of a small, doable, imaginative spiritual practice with unexpected ideas that open us to the ordinary presence of God.
Kayleigh
This post appeared first in the weekly column, "Denim Spirit" for The Finger Lakes Times (NY) Rabia never wakes up grumpy, and as far as I can tell, is never stiff in the morning either. In fact, … [Read more...]
Dear Whitey
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Denim Spirit: The Thinning of the Cervix
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Denim Spirit: A Kinder, Gentler Storm
This column first appeared in The Finger Lakes Times, August 31st as part of the regular feature, "Denim … [Read more...]
SECRETS!
Dear Subscribers, Followers, and Friends of subversivepreacher.org, I have secrets! Please don’t tell anyone because this is just between you and me, but very soon there will be an announcement … [Read more...]
Adapt (even Ritual) or Die
Born in late April in northern Vermont, my puppy’s first year of life was dominated by the coldest winter in recent memory. It was last winter when even life-long Vermonters were getting edgy about … [Read more...]
Modernist Christian Spiritual Practice: Knowing the difference between ideas and God
From the moment Jesus breathed his last breath to 381 (probably three hundred and fifty years), Christianity was a highly conflicted movement of loosely affiliated followers of Jesus. As would happen … [Read more...]
How to turn a square church into a round community
How to turn a square church into a round community My frame of reference is The Episcopal Church but I have participated in and observed numerous other Protestant congregations that had stalled out … [Read more...]
Hosting Community, Part Two
INCLUSION There is no way to mandate diversity in a spiritual community. Since such community is utterly voluntary and more often than not a collection (segregation) of the like-minded, … [Read more...]