Deep Peace: A Journey Home to Stillness There is a moment, if you have ever stood at the edge of the ocean just before dawn, when the world holds its breath. The darkness is not yet gone. The light has not yet fully arrived. And in that thin, trembling space between the two, something ancient […]
The Art of Beholding: Learning to See What Has Always Been There There is a particular quality of light that appears in the late afternoon of an Ohio April. It arrives low and amber, slanting through leaves that have already begun their eager growth to bright greens. If you are moving fast enough — hurrying […]
The Divine Touch of Connection: How a Single Image Holds a History, a Story, and a Call My father was an artist of some renown. He drew an image like this during the turmoil of the 1960s to tell us something — and it was lost to history. I have tried to recreate it for […]
Dr. King, “Sincere Ignorance,” and the Work of Becoming Intelligent There’s a moment I keep returning to—quiet, ordinary, and surprisingly revealing. A conversation starts with goodwill. People want fairness. They want safety. They want to be decent. Then the same pattern appears facts arrive without their context, a few details get trimmed, and the outcome […]
Let Me Listen: A Love Letter to Shared Humanity (and What It Asks of Us There’s a particular kind of courage in saying: let me listen. Not “let me fix.” Not “let me respond.” Not even “let me impress you with my empathy.” Just… listen. In a poem by Charles Anthony Silvestri (2022), that invitation […]
Sometimes I am just plain numb. Not in a dramatic, storybook way—no fireworks, no sudden collapse. It’s quieter than that. It feels like driving through fog for days: my hands still move, my calendar still gets filled, my words still come out in the right order. I can answer emails. I can make dinner. I […]
First Comes Justice: The Light That Holds Back the Darkness This is one story I feel strongly about. I will not soon forget the first time I walked through the heavy steel doors of a state prison with Kairos Prison Ministries. The Sally port has a clang when it shuts behind you that feels final, […]
The ache of loneliness is deep and profound for some of us. It shows up in our posture, our energy, and the way we relate to the world. I remember when I went through a painful divorce and the loneliness I felt. I didn’t have self-esteem, and I didn’t know what was next in my […]
I’m starting today with a simple promise: to take the ancient tools people have used for millennia and translate them into everyday skills—what I call the seven pillars of spiritual emotional intelligence. This isn’t theory; it’s a practical way to blend inner awareness and soulful purpose with the concrete abilities we use to navigate relationships […]
Can I be heretical for a moment? I want to talk about worship—not as doctrine but as human behavior. When we use words like “worship,” “blessed,” or “devotion,” we often assume everyone shares the same map for those terms. But what if we treated those words as claims that require context and interrogation the way […]
