Hints and Guesses

Risk Longing: On the First Day of Advent

A winter storm canceled church, so here's a sermon of sorts.  Enjoy!

Risk Longing: On the First Day of Advent

A winter storm closed the churches today, so I thought I'd bring an Advent sermon to the podcast.  Enjoy!

Maybe you need a Blessing

Happy Thanksgiving!  Here are a few thoughts on blessing, pilgrimage, monastic creativity, and the new dark age.  Wishing you all many blessings.  May the road rise to meet you.  Enjoy!

Shadow and the Prophetic Imagination

The ancient prophets were something like the first shadow detectors, and had the courage to externalize their vision of the world.  What ever happened to such prophetic imagination?  Are there any lessons we can metabolize from the prophets in our age of madness?  What would it be like to stand between the way of power and the way of denial, a creative alternative to the tantalizing polls of scapegoating and blame?  Enjoy!

Covenant with Limit

I'm borrowing this phrase "covenant with limit" from Martin Shaw.  Perhaps it's time to reconsider how freedom is actually found.  In this episode, I discuss briefly Wendell Berry's poem Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, the ancient art of fasting, and the imaginative possibility that we might want to make a covenant with limits before we go mad in the wrong direction.  Enjoy!