Advent — this season of longing for the arrival of the Emmanuel, God-with-us — begins in just a few weeks. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, this time […]
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A Tale of Two Brigids: What the Goddess & Saint Can Teach Us about Pagan-Christian Friendship
My dear friend and colleague Saro Lynch-Thomason is offering an unprecedented learning experience called Singing the Wheel of the Year. Which got me thinking about our braided spiritual paths… As […]
Opening to Spiritual Adventure with Fred Herron
This Spring I got to sit down with Fred Herron, host of Spirituality Adventures, to talk about what it means to live a life of spiritual adventure, and write a […]
Empathy or Entropy? The Promise of Christian Transhumanism.
In The Empathic Civilization, Jeremy Rifkin summarized the millennia-long human drive of innovation as a race between entropy and empathy. Which is winning? And can the wonders promised by the Transhumanist movement help, […]
Holy Heretics, Batman! (Two Opportunities to Get Together Soon)
Two spiky-haired dudes (one of whom being the incomparable Jon Scott) get together and talk about the collapse of empathy in America, the remedy of authentic connection, practicing the presence […]