For the season of Advent I will be offering a weekly column at Patheos on practices for Advent to nurture our intimacy with creation: As we enter these four weeks of Advent, we cross into a holy time when the scriptures are filled with images of expectancy as we await the coming of a God who enters into the heart of this world. I invite you during these next four weeks to embrace this season as a time to tend to your relationship to creation. As we anticipate the way holiness becomes enfleshed, we are called to reflect on the

Patheos periodically offers a theoblogger challenge to respond to a question in 100 words or less.  I wasn’t able to respond in time to be included in their list, but offer my response here.  Stop by their website to see the other responses.  Here is the prompt: Faced with an unexpected personal crisis, each of us is propelled on a unique journey through grief, without a clear road map or how-to instructions. With the recent release of the movie Eat, Pray, Love, about one woman’s spiritual quest after a bitter divorce, we’ve been thinking about the ways each of us seeks

I was invited to be a part of Patheos‘ new Theoblogger Challenge – God in 100 Words or Less.  (Patheos is a multifaith website where I occasionally write for the Catholic and Mainline Protestant Portals.) One of their regular features is the Public Square, and this week the subject is God.  They decided to reach out to a handful of theobloggers (those blogging about God online) and launched their first-ever Theoblogger Challenge inviting a dozen bloggers to answer the question: *Who/What is God? … in 100 words or less.* Here is my response: ***** God Is… The One who pulses