FINDING THE WAY BACK
In my late teens and early twenties I worked as a cowboy and also worked packing mules and horses for backcountry trips in the high […]
Journals
CHRISTIAN CHEESE
This post is really a public service to the readers of this Journal. Recently I had the terrible experience of being served a Cheese that […]
BEAUTY AND BREAD
John Muir (1838-1914) naturalist wrote, “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and […]
WORSHIP AND MYSTERY
Worship leads to thanksgiving and mystery leads to faith. There is a single favorite text that helps describe this: “The grace of the Lord Jesus […]
INVITED TO HELP
There is a distinction in the works of Jesus that takes some careful thought. I am referring to the various people who were ‘touched by […]
WALKING ON HIGH PLACES
“Though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit is on the vines;though the produce of the olive fails, and the fields yield no food;though the […]
WHALE BELLY PRAYER RETREAT
I was just looking again at Jonah 2 and thinking about having a Prayer Retreat with Jonah. The text says that he “prayed from the […]
MASTERING THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
Dallas Willard (1935-2013) wrote, “More than anything – and most important for our goal of understanding the disciplines for the spiritual life – we must […]
WHALE BELLY LESSONS
There are times when we are like Jonah…swallowed by a great fish (whale) and don’t realize the depth and degree of our having been swallowed. […]
NATURAL BEAUTY
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) marine biologist and environmental conservationist and author of ‘Silent Spring,’ wrote,“I am not afraid of being thought a sentimentalist when I say that […]