The Love of Christ Impels Us
This past July my husband Jim, my son, and some extended family members traveled to Alaska for a long-awaited and joyfully anticipated vacation. While in Homer, however, Jim had a…
Religion in Transition: Living Between the Worlds of God
This summer I had the privilege of attending two very different spiritual events, the first, a gathering of spiritual seekers at Princeton Theological Seminary and, the second, a Catholic Sisters’…
Celebrating Interdependence
Question: What does a celebration of interdependence look like to you? What stories might you tell? The idea of independence is a strong aspect of American cultural identity, and yet,…
A July Reflection
By Jillian Langford I am the daughter of a newspaper copy editor. Growing up with a father whose job it was to literally read the newspaper front to back everyday…
The Beautiful Wholeness of Nature
Nature is an interlocking network of systems, an “unbearable wholeness of beings,” Steven Talbott wrote.[i] Nature is more flow than fixed. “The body,” he states, “is a formed”[ii] Structures, once…
Gun Violence and Technology
The killing of seven innocent people at a fourth of July celebration has now been added to the growing list of gun violence in this country. We are momentarily shocked…
Seeds of a New Eden
I invite you to take a seed and quietly behold it in your hand. It might be a ‘helicopter’ seed, a garden seed, a pinecone, or another seed that crosses…
