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Palm Sunday — Daily Life on Display becoming human growth palm sunday spiritual journey spirituality Mar 21, 2024

Palm Sunday, we must admit, is a very strange worship service.  The service begins outside the church where we acknowledge, “Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord.”  But almost immediat...

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Wilderness — The Way to Transformation becoming human growth spiritual journey spirituality Mar 02, 2024

The gospel lesson appointed for the first Sunday in Lent sets the stage for the season by recounting Jesus’ baptism and his experience in the wilderness.  Typically, when people recall Jesus’ baptism,...

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Lent — An Invitation to Grow becoming becoming human growth mystery mystery of life spiritual journey spirituality Feb 16, 2024

Our religious understanding of Lent has become truncated — reduced to little more than a manufactured attempt to merit God’s grace.  The focus the church has espoused is one of penance which most ofte...

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Ash Wednesday — An Invitation to Embrace Spiritual Growth growth intention ritual spiritual journey spirituality Feb 02, 2024

Ash Wednesday is the liturgical service that kicks off the season of Lent.  And, like so many of our liturgical expressions, its meaning and purpose has become obfuscated by an institutional perspecti...

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Epiphany — Celebrating the Manifestation of God in Our World baptism epiphany hope spiritual journey spirituality Jan 11, 2024

The Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th.  The word “epiphany” simply means manifestation or appearance.  Thus, the Feast of the Epiphany is the celebration of the manifestation of God, ...

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Realizing the Sacraments growth liturgy ritual sacraments spiritual journey spirituality Jun 02, 2023

The previous blog post where I addressed the essence of ritual inspired me to continue in that vein of thought and address the fundamental component of ritual within the church — the sacraments.  The ...

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Spirituality — Daring to Grow growth spiritual journey spirituality Apr 27, 2023

We live in one of the most spiritual times in human history.  Today people are once again intuiting the wholeness (and holiness) that is life.  In fact, the observations of modern consciousness resear...

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Perceptions and Reality perception spiritual journey Mar 14, 2023

As I begin this journey of blogging — sharing my thoughts and reflections — it seems appropriate that I offer some insight into where I am coming from.  So, here goes.

Over the course of my life’s jo...

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