I love the idea that my life and what I do can bring creation closer to God. It feels like a big responsibility. It feels like a grand calling. Looking back at the work I've been involved in, there ar...

It was Peter that flat-out rejected what must come. Imagine pulling Jesus aside to rebuke Him shortly after you proclaimed Him to be the Christ and Messiah. God had allowed Peter the faith to see Jesu...

Jesus meets me with a gentle, gracious love every time I succeed and every time I fail. Yet I don't always meet myself with that same gentle response. How wonderful would that be, where each time I fa...

Our God continues to make a way forward for Urban Monasticism. The time has come for us, as an organization, to appoint our two Establishing Abbots who will help us

The ways Simon Peter's senses were experiencing Jesus in the moment of his Christological confession were not different from weeks or years earlier. He still saw the same person. The voice of Jesus st...

One of the things I hope for is to experience the Fruit of the Spirit naturally flowing out of me, into the depths of the world. To embody parts of who Jesus is at his core, and to share those things ...

This one thing about who the Canaanite woman was had made her an outsider. Yet, Jesus saw through this and saw her when His world that did not. He accepted her. Jesus saw me and accepted me. She knelt...

Even as Peter was sliding into the depths towards his death, our God was there. He cried out, "Lord, save me!" I've cried this same prayer many times before. Just like Peter, doubt overcomes my faith....

Even as Peter was sliding into the depths towards his death, our God was there. He cried out, "Lord, save me!" I've cried this same prayer many times before. Just like Peter, doubt overcomes my faith....

Every year I continue to learn new ways of seeing His compassion at work in myself, and in our world. Every year His compassion becomes more miraculous. There are even moments where I am invited to be...

Every year I continue to learn new ways of seeing His compassion at work in myself, and in our world. Every year His compassion becomes more miraculous. There are even moments where I am invited to be...

Where and how I spend my time has a big influence on how I'm able to love people. Living a simple life allows more space to be present with God. It helps me to be more present with others.

Every time the growth and movement of His Kingdom starts with love. It is the love of God that gives me life. It is His love that awakens the seed to transform and grow. It is love that moves almost u...

God's peace isn't a peace I can fabricate or create for myself. It is a divine peace. A divine peace that fills my being with each breath. It is something my soul longs for. It is a restoring peace th...

In the parable, it is clear that Jesus is compassionate. He has love for the children of the Kingdom. He wants nothing to harm them or to keep them from growing. I think it is also clear that He has h...