Showing posts with label sacred. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sacred. Show all posts

Living Marriage - Living Faith

Friday, April 30, 2010


Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Gal 15:22

Marriage as an invitation into the narrative of God's love - how we respond to this invitation ... in the moment to moment ... exposes our narrative of faith.
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The Holy Erotic

Monday, February 22, 2010

I am sitting on the deck at my temporary Santa Barbara writer's retreat. The sun dances on my eyelids and fills my soul with warm light. Read More...

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How the Teachings of Sexual Purity Leads to Violence

Wednesday, December 9, 2009


"Tina, I don't know what to do. I'm supposed to be in the honeymoon phase of my marriage ... and we are both sexually miserable." Tears began to flow down her cheeks. Read More...

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Eros and the Force of God Within

Wednesday, November 4, 2009


Years ago life presented me with the experience of online dating ... not an experience for the faint of heart ... yet from which I learned a ton, experienced even more ... and somewhere far down the rabbit hole, met my beloved. Read More...

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I hope you dance ...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

I stood holding my daugther's hand tears streaming down my face and hers.
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What is the story ... of your life ... of you?

Saturday, August 15, 2009


A day bits and pieces - parts of a story ...
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Saudade

Monday, July 20, 2009



Its evening ... the light is fading ... I feel tired, slow, reflective. I spent the last 24 hours with graduate students and colleagues sharing stories of the human sort and was reminded of a word that has found its resonance in the cords of life over the last year. Saudade. Read More...

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The Body Is the Spirit Thickened

Friday, January 9, 2009

It was a cloudy day and I was riding on a ferry reading Letters to a Young Doctor by Richard Selzer. This is a book written by a surgeon who shares his surprise at how often sacred encounters emerged in his career as a physician. “The body is the spirit thickened.” As I read these words it was as if my whole being resounded “YES!” Read More...

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