Gentle and Humble in Heart
Today's episode reflects on one of my favorite parts of the gospels, Matthew 11:28-30. "Come to me, all you who are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." This is the only place ...
30 Jan 20239min
The Peace of Wild Things
Today's episode reflects on the poem by Wendell Berry, "The Peace of Wild Things." I learned about this poem during my medical leave a year ago and it has stayed with me ever since. Feedback? I'd lov...
27 Jan 20238min
Critical Yeast
Today's episode is about "critical yeast," a concept articulated by the global peacebuilder, John Paul Lederach, in his book “The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace.” When we think...
26 Jan 20237min
191 Years
Today's episode is about my favorite tree in our backyard at home: a beautiful, soaring white oak that (according to my very amateurish efforts, based on this Purdue University report here) is approxi...
25 Jan 20238min
Sighs As Prayers
Today's episode is about viewing our sighs as prayers, drawing on a generative line from the apostle Paul: "We don't know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit intercedes for us with sighs too deep ...
24 Jan 20238min
The Point Is to Become Yourself
Today's episode is about the lifelong call to become the truest and deepest version of ourselves - the presence of light and life and love in the world. We mention a story told by Martin Buber from hi...
23 Jan 20237min
The Three Marriages
Today’s episode is about a better way to talk about that deeply misleading and cumbersome idea of “work-life balance.” David Whyte’s 2009 book, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relation...
20 Jan 20239min
Internal Family Systems
Today’s episode is about the Internal Family Systems model, an integrative psychological approach for healing and restoring wholeness that I've found to be really helpful. IFS, as it's known, was dev...
19 Jan 20239min
