Core Inquiries
I write about where Christian contemplation, Buddhist discipline, yoga, and ordinary life meet—and where they challenge one another.
Franciscan Simplicity
Thai Forest Tradition
Human Transformation
The prayer and generous life of Saint Francis, and the questions I carried away from a year with the friars.
Meditation, ethics, and close attention to the mind in the Thai Forest tradition as I encountered it at Bodhinyanarama and Birken.
How yoga, work, and family life test whether insight makes us less captive to ourselves and more capable of love.
A Core Insight
"A powerful experience is not necessarily a liberating experience."
James Hague
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