Integrating Spirituality

Integrating spiritual practices has been a spiritual practice for him. He has dedicated his life to helping other discover or rediscover spiritual practices that strengthen one’s ability to solve and end social injustices. Often, such practices are taught only as a means to help nurture an intimate, personal, and private relationship with God. Rarely are they taught as a means to help nurture a deep, collective, and public relationship with God to help others solve and end social injustices which heal singular and societal hurts and pains.

He teaches that personally selected spiritual practices can help people integrate their actions and reactions with the actions and reactions of the people and places that make up their everyday world. Such integration helps them become agents of transformation and reconciliation.

He also teaches individuals how to develop a Rule of Life as a personal toolbox and to fill it with spiritual practices to help solve and end singular and societal struggles in the communities in which they live, work, worship, recreate, socialize, and/or serve.

 

Recent posts include:

A Good Friday Contemplation: Consider Crafting an Ethical Will

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Cross Your Heart in Honor of Good Friday: Add to the Sacred Day by Making a Sacred Promise

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“I Give You My Word:” A Christmas Gift That We Can Give Like No Other

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Piety, Penance, Prayer and the Pandemic: A Coming Lenten Season Like No Other

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How Should We Respond to the Pain Precipitated by the Pandemic?

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COVID-19 Pandemic: How Should We Respond to the Dying of the Elderly?

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COVID-19: How Should We Respond to the Death and Dying?

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Social Distancing and Social Distance: What’s the Difference?

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The Tender Touch of Taps: the Bugle Call

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“To be Willing to March into Hell for a Heavenly Cause”

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Commemorating Advent and the 50-Year Ago Christmas Eve Adventure of Apollo 8: A Complimentary Commemoration for Contemplation of Civilization Part III in a Series

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Commemorating Advent and the 50-Year Old Christmas Eve Adventure of Apollo 8: A Complimentary Commemoration for Contemplation of the Cosmos: Part II in a Series

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Preparing for Advent, Insight, and the Descent of the Mars Lander

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Advent, Attentiveness, and the Admiration of the Apollo 8 Assignment: A Complimentary Commemoration

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Commemorating Armistice Day 100 Years Later: Allow Some Time to be Still and Sit in Silence

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Lent, Fasting, Cesar Chavez, Robert F. Kennedy, and Justice

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The Little Office for the New Year: Praying the Great Psalm

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O Holy Night: Preparing for the Charm of Christmas Morning

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Praying the Christmas Prayers of the Mystics – Part III

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Praying the Christmas Prayers of the Mystics for Advent: Preparing for the Charm of Christmas Morning (Part II)

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Praying the Christmas Prayers of the Mystics – Part I

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The Little Office of the Birth of the Christian Church for Renewal on Pentecost Sunday – Preparing for 9:00 am: Part III

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The Little Office of the Birth of the Christian Church for Renewal on Pentecost Sunday: Part II

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The Little Office of the Birth of the Christian Church for Renewal on Pentecost Sunday: Part I

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Commemorating the 24 Hours Between the Last Supper and Christ’s Entombment Before Celebrating the Resurrection

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Reflection on Silence: The Movie

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Senses and Census: Creating a Sense of, and Solutions for, Social Justice

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Collective Responsibility and Homelessness: Integrating individual and shared responsibility

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Integrating Scripture, Social Capital, and Social Reform

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Integrating Our Passions, Probity, and Prayers: Praying the Psalms and Seeking Social Justice

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Lenten “Inner” Spiritual Retreats and Solving Social Struggles

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Lectio Divina and an Image of a Homeless Person Realized in Psalm 31

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The Divine Hours of Prayer and the Blues

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The Wounded Healer in the Spirit of Henri Nouwen

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The Spiritual Practice of Incarnational Solidarity

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