African monkey traps and our giving God
In my spiritual director training, one of the facilitators shared a question that she often asks herself when she finds herself reacting to a situation, “In the midst of that…
The too-good-to-miss news of where Jesus was born
It was two nights before Christmas and I'd slipped into my common refrain of wishing I had a better self to offer Jesus—less fearful, less selfish, better able to trust.…
The Hidden King
As I sat yesterday in the pew of a big city church, distant echoes played in my mind, echoes of that Sunday a couple of years ago when I'd sat…