Balance: Through the Power of the Stories We Tell This past Sunday, I presented you with two different creation stories: the story of Genesis (familiar to most all of us who live in this American culture), and that of Native American origin, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. If you missed it, you can…

Balance: Welcoming, Humility, and Grace Wow! What a journey seminary is going to be! I spent 4 days in Chicago at Meadville Lombard Theological School with some amazing students, staff, and faculty. The experience went above and beyond my expectations. Before going, as many of you who talked to me may have noticed, I was…

Imagination: Weaving Our Lives Together Ponderings of the Spiritual Life Director Listening is a creative force. Something quite wonderful occurs when we are listened to fully. We expand, ideas come to life and grow, we remember who we are. Some speak of this force as a creative fountain within us that springs forth; others call…

Imagining our Values Ponderings of the Spiritual Life Director We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine completely who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined. ― N. Scott Momaday ICYMI (that’s “in…

Imagination and Theology Ponderings of the Spiritual Life Director Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in…

Freedom and Music Ponderings of the Spiritual Life Director Music is a primal human phenomenon. It affects all of us, but in very personal and unique ways. I enjoy a diverse and wide range of music. However, as I’ve written about before, some of my favorite music to listen to tends to be a bit…