“Every disaster movie starts with the government ignoring a scientist” — social media meme, unknown origin

About eight years ago I started a meditation practice of drawing or doodling that I call “inklings” —as it gives glimpses both inward into one’s self ...

Once upon a time I rejected the concept of surrender without hesitation or investigation Would not even risk thinking it (surrender, indeed!) and yet…

The Church of the Larger Fellowship is comprised of over 2500 individuals serving Unitarian Universalism—half of whom are currently incarcerated.

In a congregation I once served was a man who’d been there many years—not a noisy person, but one who was pretty loud in his dislike of silence in the...

Silence is the tool that brings us back from fragmentation into wholeness.

Three sanctuaries of silence come to mind as I think about creating more space for silence in my life.

The day Gerry and I moved to Neenah from Milwaukee was a long, exhausting one.

When I was a child I used to fear the silence. One of the tortures I endured was being thrown into a small closet with no light, and being left there ...

Where I live, December marks the beginning of winter. And in the Hudson Valley of New York, those winters are often cold, silent, and dark.