This summer I baked lots of bread. I have this pesky idea that if I am in the process of being ordain as a priest, who will be sharing bread in a sacred manner, then it is important for me to be experience the sacredness of bread from the very act of baking it.   [...]

  (Christine Valters Paintner, The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, 2001, 173 pages.) “… how you do anything is probably how you do everything.” – Richard Rohr Raimundo Panikkar in his book Blessed Simplicity: The Monk as Universal Archetype, describes the monk (be it male or female, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist et cetera) [...]

  The “we” is because Ricci and I will make the pilgrimage together to the Wild Goose Festival, June 23-26.  We have decided that this pilgrimage will be our 11th wedding anniversary gift to each other. We are very aware that it will not be the perfect gathering of people that will solve the entire [...]

I recommend you download and read Brian Ammons article/chapter. Read more below. Reposting from Homebrewed Theology: Brian Ammons’ got his chapter banned from the Baptimergent book & here it is for you and your friends for FREE!! Here’s the story…. Smyth & Helwys, the press whose primary market is the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, published the first [...]

Last year I tried to read mostly fiction – that beside school assigned books. I was somewhat successful, but there was some non-fiction that made it way to my reading pile. This year I would like to get into poetry. I read quite a bit of Latin American poetry in the 90′s. Finding then a [...]