Our life plans are little more than stories that we can ruthlessly clutch regardless of the contours of the moment or that we can adjust as conditions warrant. Attachment to our fabricated narratives pushes us into a land of fantasy characterized by wishful thinking, grief over what isn’t, and despising the truth of the present.Continue reading

Community doesn’t look like church.

Every year, I take an annual trip with my friends from college, my very conservative, religious college. Since all of us went there and most still ascribe to those religious beliefs of a faithful three times a week church-goer, we went to church. The church we go to when we are on vacation is the same churchContinue reading “Community doesn’t look like church.”

Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or mediation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universeContinue reading