BIPOC communities are especially surrounded by messages and systems that daily deny our dignity and worth. For BIPOC communities to experience our sacredness we need to be settled into our own bodies, experience the traditions and spirituality of our cultures, and engage with community that reflect our sacredness back to us.
Read MoreThis July will mark seven years since I became Stillpoint’s executive director. It has been such a great privilege for me, and not without some surprising challenges, like a global pandemic…
Read MoreAfter doing my very best to protect myself and my household from getting the COVID virus, this March 2022 I tested positive for the first time. I don’t even like writing these words…
Read MoreIn the Northern Hemisphere of Planet Earth, it is spring. For some it is not as evident, with snow still falling, but slowly and surely, much is happening at the depths.
Read MoreAs one begins the journey to becoming a spiritual director, one of the most important understandings is that agency lies with the directee, the one being companioned, not the director.
Read MoreThe first time we hear that something lasted forty days and forty nights in Hebrew Scripture is in the story of the flood in Genesis. In the book of Exodus, Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights, receiving God’s law for the people.
Read MoreBefore the COVID-19 lockdown, I had the privilege of serving a women’s jail, offering one-on- one spiritual companionship and Sunday worship. I have missed this community and look forward to returning. It is a powerful experience to set an altar in a jail…
Read MoreOne of the significant losses experienced during our global pandemic is that of communal singing. In feeling this loss, we recognize the gift we may have sometimes taken for granted. While many have done their best to keep us singing together…
Read MoreStillpoint is growing. And because we are growing so has our staff. We have been gifted with the presence of Chris Ng, Krystle Hart, Dana Cagle and Ravi Verma and now Colleen joins us as our new Associate Program Director.
Read MoreWhat is pandemic life teaching me about myself, about my communities, about my world? I asked this often in the first few months of the COVID lockdown. And then I had to ask myself as months turned into a year. What is the pandemic teaching us now?
Read MoreGrowing up my family had the ritual, like many, of praying before we ate dinner. It was called, saying grace. Such a lovely phrase, saying grace. I didn’t experience as saying grace then but more like…
Read MoreRecently, a friend told me she gets her news from the poets these days. Here’s some news that I’ve been tuned into from Wendell Berry…
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