There Is Some Good News about Our Plastic Crisis
This is the last week of Plastic Free July. I hope you have taken a few more steps this past month to reduce the amount of single use plastic in…
A Comprehensive Look at Controlling Our Use of Plastic
Single-use plastic is a big problem, damaging the environment, killing marine life, breaking down into micro-pellets that are even found in the human blood stream. But our individual efforts to…
How to Reduce Your Single-Use Plastic
The first thing to do is know what you can recycle and what you can’t. In Central Ohio that is determined by SWACO, the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio.…
What’s So Bad about Plastic?
Why participate in Plastic Free July? Because the world is overwhelmed with single-use plastic. It is not only a pollutant, but it is on track to damage the health of…
It’s Plastic Free July!
Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful…
Petition
Image: The Temptation of St Anthony, engraving by Martin Schongauer, c. 1470–75 After offering an invocation that leads me through a door into the divine presence, I often find that my…
Invocation
A few years ago, I spent the summer praying through the Jawshan Kabir, a remarkable Islamic text that lists more than a thousand names for God. I was merely a…
Elaborating the Shape of Prayer
Faiths tend to build expectations for prayer, which can almost be thought of as a form of manners. Breaking the prayer form is impolite. God, of course, can handle impolite…
The Peace of God
There are many ways of praying and thinking about prayer. A common one is to consider prayer a kind of conversation with God. This conversation can take any shape and…
Entering the Divine Reality Through Prayer, Part One
In a previous post, I talked about ways to open a door into the divine reality that Christians call the Kingdom of God. I mentioned prayer in passing before going…