Archives

2013

September

• Welcome!
• My Monastic Cell

October

• Choosing Not to Escape
• “You need privacy…with me.”
• Dreaming the Right Dreams…for ourselves and our children

November

• Cultivating the Vision of a Saint
• Preparing for Advent

2014

January

• In Praise of Boredom…the Gift of Unfilled Time
• The Tension of a Hurried but Holy Life

February

• Weathering a Storm: The Unsung Virtue of ENDURANCE
• Endurance, Part II: Teaching our Children Endurance
• What Does it Mean to be a Woman?

March

• Fight for Fiction: The Formative Power of Story

April

• Book Flash: THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON by Adam Johnson
• In Need of a Resurrection

May

• Living in Vertical Time

June

• A Poem for the Impossible Journey

July

• The Cosmic Company We Keep

September

• Book Flash: The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter

October

• Waiting…in the Laboratory of God.

November

• The Spiritual Potential of Children

December

• An Advent Prayer: “Jerusalem in my Heart”

2015

February

• Where Does My Help Come From? Living Life with a Challenging Child

March

• The Word that Dispels all Darkness: Staying Near Jesus in Holy Week

May

• True revelations: Outings with lots of kids

July

• Naming a Child’s True Self

September

• An Elegy for Gender? The Encroachment of Androgyny

December

• Meditation or Mediation: The power of meditation to live in the moment

2016

February

• Incarnational Living: Living With Less Media

April

• Can God Set a Table in the Wilderness?

September

• God’s Extravagant Gift

November

• To Have or Not to Have? The Dialogue with God About Building Your Family

2017

April

• The Cup We Drink with Jesus: our Suffering and our Salvation

June

• The Sacredness of Your Child’s Imagination: Part I

2018

March

• The Sacredness of Your Child’s Imagination: Part II: Practicalities

June

• Living Into Our Inheritance

2020

April

• Stay With Me: The invitation during Covid-19

May

• Confined with Ourselves

2021

December

• Nativity Among the Ruins

2023

December

• Our Calling to be Little John the Baptists