Acts of Hope

I have been in and out of town, partly for work and partly for the first real summer vacations (yes, plural) I have had in years. I have be...

A couple of months ago I rediscovered this old poem by Marge Piercy . It is from her book The Moon Is Always Female . What can they do to...

Today I made and baked bread for the first time. Bread made with yeast and kneaded by hand. I have of course made all manner of quick brea...

A couple of fine friends of mine in Brazil are about to make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, in Portuguese Nossa Senhor...

For the wordy request, see here . Thank you.

A Californian acquaintance of mine by the name of Sistertech has written a truly brilliant, not to mention humorous and touching, book of p...

My friend Paul the BB is much more faithful than I in posting prayer concerns and requests in his "heart threads" and "Oremu...

My friend Luiz Coelho has made his Stations of the Cross of Globalization available as a free download. You can find the download link here ...

This is one of my favorite places. I haven't been to the Abbey of Sénanque in about 30 years, but the parents of an old and dear friend...

Deenie died peacefully yesterday, Saturday June 27, in the afternoon, at her home near Boston. The hospice had adjusted Deenie's medicat...

Just got an update. (See post below for earlier episode.) Deenie is staying at home. Her lawyer and friend (same person) intervened and did...

It has been nearly four years since I moved to North Carolina and I have yet to get a new health care proxy . Don't do what I have done....

Deenie is still alive, sleeping a lot more, weaker. She had a bad moment of panic the other day. The hospice is still not being helpful; ...

The friend who keeps me posted on Deenie 's condition writes that Deenie is getting weaker and is in greater pain. She says that Hospice...

I visited Deenie yesterday for two hours. After some good weeks, she has begun to feel weaker and more sluggish. This new phase began two o...

A relational ontology * focuses on personhood, relationship, and communion as the modality of all existence. This secures for Christian the...

Doxy and Dear Friend had the following statement in the wedding program: Even in our joy, we do not forget our friends and loved ones who ar...

Enough already with all the work. You've got to stop and smell the magnolias. More from one of the reporters on the scene here. The ...

Friends of this blog will recognize (or see for the first time) the faces of some notorious bloggers. L to R: The not-so-blushing-but-quite-...

Cross-posted on Facebook: Those of you with a spiritual practice, do send prayers, good vibrations, incantations, and meditations of healing...