Franciscan Spirit

Like the number forty, meditation is found in all the major religious traditions—not, however, as a symbolic idea but as a practice. So what is meditation and what are the benefits?

The word holiness can have a discouraging effect on people. Some immediately dismiss it, perhaps a bit sadly, since they believe that whatever it is, holiness is way beyond their reach.

This fall marks six years since my family and I sold our 27-acre organic farm and the house we had designed and built ourselves—the place my wife and I thought we’d call home our entire lives.

To understand what we are as Church, the Creed gives us four adjectives: one, holy, catholic, apostolic.

I love to write. Since I was a boy, paper and pencil have been on my list of favorite things.

I rise before the sun this morning to the smell of coffee in the kitchen. Another day in Eden awaits.