by Michael | Aug 9, 2024 | Spirituality
by Michael | Aug 1, 2023 | Spirituality
by Michael | May 28, 2023 | Clinical Pastoral Education, Faith-Related, Spirituality, Work
The other night I was ending a pastoral education group. We had spent three hours doing quality work together but part of the discussion was tense with grief, unsettled surprise, and familiar but contested aching. Discussion took us from foundational theorists in...
by Michael | May 24, 2023 | Spirituality
I don’t usually comment on the photos I insert, but Chris Lawton’s image is evocative of this poem by Joyce Rupp. I’ve used Chris’ images in my work and I return to Sister Rupp every other year to intentionally reflect upon loss and grief....
by Michael | May 21, 2023 | Quotes, Reading, Spirituality
by Michael | May 11, 2023 | Spirituality
There are authors I read in rotations. I will re-read a short list of writers because their work helps me remember myself, helps me fall into who I am, enable me to in their work see my own because reading them is a way of listening to the sacred in them – and,...
