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Deepening Your Spiritual Journey

Explore reflections that inspire growth, challenge your beliefs, and connect you more profoundly with your faith community.

  • Harp in Hand, Eyes on the Horizon

    Harp in Hand, Eyes on the Horizon

    God often forms us in quiet ways—through daily prayer, unexpected callings, and small acts of faithfulness. In this reflection on Psalm 18, Acts 10, and Luke 24, I explore how the Spirit is preparing…

  • Does God Identify as Male? A Theological Reflection on Divine Identity

    Does God Identify as Male? A Theological Reflection on Divine Identity

    If God—eternal and uncontainable—can choose how to be known, why do we struggle to honor the identities of one another? This reflection explores divine self-revelation, gendered language, and the sacred dignity of human self-understanding.

  • Beneath the Leaves: Learning to Pause

    Beneath the Leaves: Learning to Pause

    A reflection on the quiet, sacred moments beneath the fig tree—where rest, presence, and divine encounter reshape how we move through the world.

  • Radical Grace and the Reckoning of the Church

    Radical Grace and the Reckoning of the Church

    As The Episcopal Church reckons with its legacy of privilege and its present call to resistance, we are invited into something deeper than partisanship—into radical grace. This reflection responds to Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe’s…

  • A Hymn for This Hour

    A Hymn for This Hour

    A reflection on hymn #596 from The Hymnal 1982 and how its prophetic call for wisdom and courage meets the urgency of this national moment.

  • O America, America

    O America, America

    As Congress passes sweeping legislation that favors the wealthy and abandons the poor, I find myself echoing Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem. This is a spiritual crisis as much as a political one. And even…

  • Public Charlatans and Private Faith: A Reflection on the Death of Jimmy Swaggart

    Public Charlatans and Private Faith: A Reflection on the Death of Jimmy Swaggart

    The death of Jimmy Swaggart reignited memories of a public faith marred by scandal and hypocrisy. But for some of us, faith was never found in the spotlight—it was formed in quiet sanctuaries, among…

  • Come, Lord Jesus

    Come, Lord Jesus

    In a world aching for justice and peace, the promise of Revelation 22:2—that the leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations—gives me hope. As I pray for my…

  • Resisting Tyranny: Insights from Micah on H.R.1

    Resisting Tyranny: Insights from Micah on H.R.1

    Micah’s prophetic voice still speaks to us today. In the face of legislation like H.R.1, which targets the poor and vulnerable under the guise of reform, we must ask what God requires of us.…