I call everyone “friend.” It's a spiritual practice for me. I learned to use “friend” rather than “sir/ma’am” (I live in the South, where...

As we navigate this "brave new world"... I had the opportunity today to attend a webinar of chaplains from around the country, several of...

I have learned many things from my Buddhist friends and reading and listening to Buddhist teachers, but perhaps my favorite so far is the...

We tend to think of autumn as the season of change, maybe because it’s a showy season, the vibrant color, the dramatic sacrifice of...

Of all the types and styles of meditation, all the various approaches I have encountered over the past several years of study and...

Mercy to the Humans We ask for mercy. Mercy comes. For our shaky health, for our unpredictable bills For our deadlines, for our broken...

Everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. It is a simple but profound truth, and our hearts find more serenity when we keep this...

i. In our yard, outside the window bench where I sit to meditate each morning, the house is hemmed in with azalea bushes that bloom...

As a yoga student and then teacher, I became familiar with the practice as a moving meditation, along with breathing exercises, and often...

There is always something blooming here in central Florida, it seems. I’ve been here just over a year now, and it is striking to me that...

Dear friends—are you setting resolutions today? One, or perhaps several ways in which you plan to improve yourself and your life in 2018?...

“See if you can let it be easy,” my Linklater voice teacher would often say, as she coached my small group of local actors through...

Here is a spiritual and practical question I’ve been sitting with lately: what is a proper relationship with the past? We are just coming...

In America, we mark our public doors with an illuminated red sign that reads, “EXIT.” In England, the doors are labeled “Way In” from the...

This is the season for letting go of what no longer serves or supports you. The teaching of the malas is an idea from Hinduism that...

How to stay in conversation on the journey through disagreement & misunderstanding. I am exploring (again) a call to vocational ministry,...