Moon-Seeking: A Practice for Reclaiming Time

Moon-Seeking: A Practice for Reclaiming Time

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...

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What is a Pastoral Leader?

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...

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Blessing a Threshold with Pride

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...

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My Manifesto

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...

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My Night Walk

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,...

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