Hope for the mixed-motived
What do you want? You get what you want, often. Proponents of positive thinking would claim that you get what you want always, although unrequited loves and unwon lottery tickets […]
Tag Archives: spirituality
Social Junkie Blues
Sipping coffee along a corner street café, my friend Marty peered over his dark rimmed glasses to make his concluding remarks. “Eventually the music stops each night, everyone goes home, […]
Recycled Melodies
A viral video caught my eye and my heart this month. It shows a slum community who lives next to a landfill in Paraguay where people came to recycle the […]
Colorful like the Circus
Like other painters of his generation, Marc Chagall loved the circus. The delight he experienced seeing clowns and acrobats as a little boy – the unexpected laughs, the beat of […]
What does it mean to be holy?
My husband and I lived in Vancouver for three years while I worked on my theology Masters. While we were there, I made three distinct attempts at being holy. Each […]
Yearning to Make Sense of Things
Might, many wondered, these silent pinpricks of light in the velvet darkness of the heavens disclose something deeper about the origins and goals of life?
So Real, it’s Surreal…
I’m writing this article in the study of some German friends, having arrived from Adelaide in Australia to their little German village, Bad Mergentheim, yesterday. Maybe it’s partly because of […]
“Spiritual but not Religious” Dogma
While reviewing a new book for a religion journal, I recently came across a term unfamiliar to me: reflexive spirituality. Coined by the sociologist Wade Clark Roof, the term appears […]
A Great Escape
As a mother of three, with all the stresses and strains and baggage (gallons of it in my hands, and now even in the under-eye area) that that entails, I […]
Gauguin’s Blue
In 1891 Paul Gauguin sailed for Tahiti, in search of a civilization purer than his native France, and in 1897, after a month of feverish work, he completed his most […]
Wondering Fair 