Mindfulness. That’s a great word, isn’t it? I was recently giving a presentation on Mindfulness to the Catechumenate program at the University of the South. After a brief introduction, we broke up into small groups, and each group went through the basic method that I’ve written about here and in my book, Just Begin. In Read More …
Let me start off by saying, “I love religion.” I love to think about religion, talk about it, study it, and write about it. Also, I think the variety of religion in the world is beautiful and wonderful. Such diversity and wonder… I could sit and talk for hours (and I have) with individual persons Read More …
No, not that Thomas More. As a change of pace, I thought that I would offer a few comments about a recent book. In A Religion of One’s Own, Thomas Moore speaks to the needs of spirituality within our very secularized world — and also about the need of secularity in our overly ossified religious Read More …
Spiritual borrowing is the process of transplanting spiritual and religious practices from one religion to another…and it can be a tricky business. Why? Well, whether implicitly or explicitly, you have to answer the question “Just how much of the original theology/philosophy that shaped the practice gets transferred with it?” The answer to that question depends Read More …
