Invitation to Poetry: Going Home
Welcome to the Abbey’s 53rd Poetry Party! I select an image and suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below. Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the image and invitation on your blog (if you […]
What is your holy direction?
Invocation Let us try what it is to be true to gravity, to grace, to the given, faithful to our own voices, to lines making the map of our furrowed tongue. Turned toward the root of a single word, refusing solemnity and slogans, let us honor what hides and does not come easy to speech. […]
The Transforming Power of Lectio Divina: A Deeper Look at the Four Movements
Christine Sine at Godspace so graciously invited me to reflect on how lectio divina has changed my life and view of the world. Here is a brief except from The Transforming Power of Lectio Divina: A Deeper Look at the Four Movements: After almost twenty years of practicing lectio divina, I see the world differently. […]
New Review of The Artist’s Rule by The Anchoress
Elizabeth Scalia who blogs at The Anchoress has a lovely new review of The Artist’s Rule. Here is an excerpt from her review on my exploration of monastic hospitality: There, I encountered a notion I’d suspected for a while — that difficulty in welcoming others as Christ is rooted in one’s difficulty in welcoming the […]
Art, Delight, and the Spiritual Life (a guest post at Anam Cara)
I am delighted to have a guest post up at Anam Cara, the spiritual direction site run by the delightful Tara Owens. Tara asked me to write about “art, delight, and the spiritual life” and here is an excerpt: When Tara asked me to write about art, delight, and the spiritual life it was really that […]
New “innerview” on lectio divina at the Sunshine Abbey
The lovely Claudia Mairs Burney who hosted my article on The Artist Begins Again and Again also invited me to an “innerview” on the practice of lectio divina. Here is an excerpt: What do these sacred words do for the soul? Words can illuminate our hearts; they contain the seeds of invitation to cross a […]
New review of The Artist’s Rule at Image Journal!
Image Journal is one of my favorite resources for integrating art, faith, and mystery. Produced by the fine people at Seattle Pacific University and hosts of the wonderful annual Glen workshop (which I have had the joy of attending twice before), I am thrilled to read this beautifully-written review of The Artist’s Rule in their […]