Category: Spiritual Direction
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On Mary Pipher’s “Seeking Peace” {This Is Not a Book Review…}
I’ve only written a few book reviews in my day, mainly because I don’t really understand them. Or maybe I don’t appreciate them properly. Is one person’s opinion of a book supposed to sway me, even when I’m not familiar with the reviewer’s background or interests? What if I love the author and disagree with…
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Gathering ‘Round Our Grief
This cabin in the woods is empty now, but on two rainy days in early June it embraced twenty-four souls who gathered together to write their hard stories, the ones they can’t share with just anyone. Sometimes not even themselves. Not quite yet. When I preach, “It’s the sharing of our stories that saves us,”…