Posts by Andrew Schwartz
Grief and Funeral
A Process-Relational Guide to Death, Grief, and Funerals by Rick Marshall Copyright: This guide was prepared by Rick Marshall and is made available through Process & Faith, a program of the…
Read MoreBARE ATTENTION
“You’re snowballing,” she says in a tone of compassionate caution. “Yes, I know,” I say. It has been an intense day, an intense week, an intense month. There is too…
Read MoreTWO KARAMAZOV BROTHERS, HOPE, AND RADICAL SUFFERING
By Melissa D. Johnston Family lore has it that on a slow, winding and climbing trip home through the Appalachian mountains my dad looked into the rear view mirror of…
Read MoreTURNING MY BACK ON GODDE
by Connie Tuttle If repentance is ‘turning back’ or ‘returning’ to Godde, then maybe it is our task of the Lenten season. There is a special two year-old in my…
Read MoreFINDING BALANCE
Phoenix, Arizona is one of the most interesting cities in the U.S. A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of visiting this retirement and vacationing hot bed while…
Read MoreTHE LARGENESS OF LIFE
By Krista E. Hughes Stacks-and-piles vs. Hours-and-days: In my last post that’s how I described the default mode of my approach to life most days. I am not proud of…
Read MoreGOT TIME?
By Krista E. Hughes What does your “real life” look like? Most days it seems I can measure mine along two intersecting axes: There are the stacks and piles: papers…
Read MoreTASTE AND SEE
By Kirsten A. S. Mebust So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree…
Read MoreADVENTUROUS SPIRITUALITY IN REAL LIFE
By Bruce G. Epperly One of my spiritual teachers Gerald May saw the heart of spirituality as involving the following practices: pausing, noticing, opening, yielding and stretching, and responding. Such…
Read MoreNOTES FROM THE TEHOM
By Max Johnson Anyone who knows me knows that I have a (perhaps somewhat unhealthy) love of all kinds of movies and television shows, often gleaming from them various philosophical…
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