Coherence is the original state. Everything else is drift.
This reflection begins with a simple question about what moves us to act, and follows it inward toward instinct, formation, hunger, dependence, and the possibility that what we call the deepest “I” may have been practicing “we” all along.
This reflection explores how wonder can become buried beneath the weight of knowledge, and how presence can help us remember the extraordinary within what has been here all along.
This reflection begins with a question from Matthew 15: Blind to what? Following the Pharisees, a Canaanite woman, and the older truth of Genesis, it wonders what happens when the distinctions that came later become more visible than the image of God that came first.
This reflection begins with a shave nearly ten years in the making and follows what fell away into questions of survival, remembering, vocation, and coherence.
This reflection explores the tension between charity and grace through the parable of the wheat and weeds, asking what happens when generosity travels elsewhere while the harm we participate in remains untouched.
How a conversation with my mom, Paul's words, and one Tamil word unexpectedly became a reflection on formation, re-formation, and the enduring shape of becoming human.
This reflection begins with preparing to serve as lector and unfolds into a meditation on Romans 7, why coherence is so difficult, and how God's grace through Jesus Christ restores our participation in the life we were created for.
This reflection explores what nature reveals about complementary human powers, how formation teaches us to separate them, and why mature leadership learns to embody both.
This reflection explores distance, disappointment, participation, and the loneliness that emerges when we forget how to belong to imperfect places.
Most metaphors for formation are grand. This reflection explores why a simple dandelion may be one of nature's clearest teachers of transformation, responsibility, and release.