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...
Rainbow Basking: A Soulful Practice for Wellbeing
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...
What is a Pastoral Leader?
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...
Blessing a Threshold with Pride
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...
My Manifesto
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...
My Night Walk
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,...