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"F" is for Forgiveness "Forgiveness is the only way to free ourselves from the entrapment of the past." — Richard Rohr I was recently approached by a young mother who told me that she was having trouble with f…
Forgiveness Ritual This ritual salon was co-created with one of my friends who approached me about doing something around forgiveness. He was in the process of reconciling with his father whom he had not seen for many…
A Prayer for Forgiveness of Our Daily Pollutions Global warming, notes this article by Jon Queally on CommonDreams.org, is making the world hot and dry and also cold and wet. It snowed last week in Jerusalem. China is enduring its coldest winter i…
Seeking Forgiveness from Native Americans Wes Clark Jr., the son of retired U.S. Army general and former supreme commander at NATO Wesley Clark Sr., was part of a group of veterans who went to the Sioux reservation in Standing Rock, North D…
A Prayer about the Death Penalty God of Justice, in the United States, the death penalty is used as the ultimate form of punishment for heinous crimes. This barbaric practice is rejected in most other countries of the world. Su…
Scratch the Surface and Find Love Everyday Spirituality Scratch the surface of every good thing in the world, and you'll find love. Generosity: Love of giving freely Listening: Love of tuning in Keeping Promises: Love of follo…
Fertility Ritual for Creativity At the end of our Forgiveness salon, I asked my guests for suggestions of what rituals they wanted to explore next. A writer in the group asked for a fertility ritual for creativity. That really cau…
Drawing Closer to Others African Wisdom Proverbs are a mirror in which a community can look at itself and a stage on which to expose itself to others. — Patrick A. Kililombe in Towards an African Narrative Theology
"M" is for Meaning “Everything can be taken from a [person] but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances . . . . Those who have a 'why' to live, can…
A Prayer for the End of Violence in Palestine and Israel As we wake again to news that war has broken out in Israel and Palestine, our hearts are heavy. We offer this prayer originally posted on July 21, 2014.