I hear a faint buzzing and see the first hummingbird of spring scouting sustenance for its community as we sit in a circle on Randy and Edith Woodley’s back deck. We are ten sojourners from across the US spending a long weekend at Eloheh Farm (pronounced...
A Note from Dori: This is the first in a series of guest blogs that introduce Our Own Deep Wells: Awakening Soulful Practices for Wellbeing. Our Own Deep Wells supports human belonging, connection, and community through curating soulful practices from the world’s...
“The world is on fire: we know it in our bones and feel it in our hearts.” This is the first line of a call to action for those who teach, live, form and create soulful practices to participate in a virtual sharefest called Dear Earth next summer. As I came away...
This method is used in the Podcast LIVE to Tell and for Girl/Friend Theology sessions. Download the Guide Listen to the Story: Light a candle. Breathe and Center --Listen as if you are listening to scripture, as if you expect the Holy to show up. --Listen...
Prisms dangle in at least eight windows of my home, welcoming rainbows as the sun makes its daily journey across the sky. One mid-morning, my five-year-old godson caught a rainbow on his forehead. His seven-year-old sister noticed, and gently held him there a moment...
I’ve spent a career helping to nurture the next generation of spiritually gifted pastoral leaders. Notice I didn’t say “pastors.” Those who do the work of ministry show up in a rainbow of manifestations these days. They practice their work both inside and outside the...
A threshold is not a simple boundary; It is … a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. This is one reason such vital crossings were often clothed in ritual. John O'Donahue To Bless the Space Between Us If...
A friend recently asked me for help. As a Black scholar, she wanted a white colleague’s perspective on how to keep white people focused on racial justice, when heightened awareness wanes, as it usually does. What are some guidelines, she asked, that might help...
For the past ten days, I’ve slipped outside my back door after dark and stepped into a night walk, looping the circuits of this twinkling light labyrinth holding a word, a person, or a hope for the world near my heart It’s a practice that keeps deepening in me,...