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Living Intentionally

When Mercy Offends

When the Call Disrupts Comfort

The Power and Presence of Silence

Returning to the Call

The Disruption of Mercy

Living from the Center

Fighting for the 100%

Grace Beyond Boundaries

The Sacred Practice of Lament

The Limits of Outer Freedom

From Compassion to Emancipation — Fighting for the 100%

Embracing Grief as Healing

Beyond the Illusion of Freedom

Inner Conversion and Social Responsibility

The Transformative Power of Grief and Belonging

From Inner Conversion to Shared Liberation

Standing Firm in Solidarity

Lament as the Path to Healing

Standing Firm in Freedom

Faithful Disruption

Communal Lament and Healing

Liberation as the Heart of Spirituality

Holy Disruption

Embracing Grief as Strength

Reading from the Underside of History

Liberation as the Heart of Spiritual Life

The Wisdom of Grief

Listening from the Bottom

Cherished Belonging as Collective Healing

The Courage to Soften

The Truth of Cherished Belonging

Shared Responsibility, Enduring Change

Hope’s Courage Transforming Disappointment into Purpose

Bound Together in Change

Shared Leadership and Healing

From Separation to Union

Faithful to the Common Good and Collective Liberation

Rooted in Belonging

Courage to Heal

The Sacred Work of Belonging

Nonattachment as Resistance

Practicing Nonattachment

Resilience as the Courage to Carry Our Wounds

Transformed Belonging

The Journey to True Self

Living as Salt and Light

Radical Belonging and the Spirit of Shared Life

Clothed in a Deeper Belonging

Growth Beyond Self

Choose Joy

Salt and Light

Beautiful Possibilities

Choosing Joy, Holding Peace

Choosing Joy as Spiritual Resistance

The Divine Energy of Desire

Joy Through Heartbreak

Choosing Joy as a Daily Practice

Embracing the Sacred Energy of Desire and Love

Joy as a Practice of Survival

Joy That Remains

Vulnerability as the Path to Divine and Human Love

The Way to Joy

Joy That Remains

The Real Sexual Revolution

Returning to the Joy Within

Joy That Does Not Ask for Understanding

Love Given, Love Received, and Love Itself

Becoming Fully Alive

Stripped Down to the Real

Joy That Cannot Be Explained

The Sacred Flow of Embodied Love

The Real Revealed in Silence

The Grace of Returning

Learning to See Without Grasping

Awakening to Liberation Within

Living in the Embrace of Boundless Mercy

Seeing with the Heart: A Practice of Visio Divina

Scripture and Social Action

Awakened Seeing

Seeing the Kingdom Through New Eyes

Engaging Scripture as a Path to Personal Transformation

Awakening to the Heart’s Presence

Reading as Encounter

Practicing Open Spiritual Inquiry

Awakening in Stillness

Reading as a Path to Presence

Reading as Sacred Encounter

The Wisdom That Holds Us

Becoming Prayer

Reading for Transformation

Deepening Presence through Spiritual Reading

Understanding the Holy Spirit

The Spirit Speaks in Every Language

Accessing the Deeper Intelligence Within

Everyday Generosity, Real Love

Reading for Transformation, Not Certainty

Love That Flows From Within

Watching the Mind

Recovering the Lost Table

Generosity Without Pretense

The Journey of Involution, Union, and Divinization

Learning to Love with Our Whole Life

Communion as Accountability and Belonging

The Sacred Practice of Shared Abundance

Opening the Heart from Pity to Compassion

Eucharistic Solidarity as an Act of Justice and Belonging

The Power of Acceptance in Spiritual Community

Called to Love What the Church Refused

Welcome to the Hungry

The Transformative Power of Radical Welcome

To See and Not Look Away

Sharing Table Differently

The Table of Radical Welcome

Love as Living Connection

The Many Layers of CI's Substack

Learning to Belong

Meal-Based Social Action

Love Begins with Receiving

When the Chains Fall but You Stay

Reckoning with Ourselves

A Bigger Table

Becoming the Breath of Compassion

The End of the False Self

What is experiential learning?

Living in the Flow

Religion Is Not the Problem

Learning to See with Eyes of Love

The Spirit That Honors Every Body

The Cost of Honesty

The Evolution of Human Consciousness: Understanding Development Through the Lens of Sacrifice and Demon

Alive in the Movement of Spirit

Facing What’s Been Hidden

How Humans Have Evolved: Understanding Growth Through Sacrifice and Fear

The Spirit Within

Refusing to Pretend

From Transaction to Transformation: The Evolution of Sacred Sacrifice

The Spirit’s Power to Love

Facing What We’ve Buried

Already Given: Living from the Fire Within

The Risk of Saying Yes

The Evolution and Function of the Frontal Lobes

Ohana: The Love That Chooses You

The Strength We Find Together

The Wisdom We Share

Remembering Our Place in the Living World

Living Tradition, Not Blind Inheritance

Contemplation as the Catalyst for Change

Scripture as a Tool for Living

The Sacred Weight of 'Fear'

The Revolution of the Heart

Reading the Bible from the Underside

Quantum Physics, Contemplation, and Nonviolence

Love Beyond the Edge of Hope

Inner Authority and Transformation

Facing Reality with Courage and Clarity

Holding Experience, Scripture, and Tradition in Tension

Awakened by the Ache

The First Step Toward Liberation

Welcome

Brain Asymmetry

The Sacred Legacy of Home

Christ in Every Face

Home: The Heart’s Sanctuary

Beyond the God of Oppression

The Journey Home to What Has Always Been

The God Who Mothers

You Were Born With a Compass Toward Home

Mary and the First Universal Incarnation

Restoring What Patriarchy Erased

The Journey Home to Who You’ve Always Been

Reclaiming the Feminine Face of God

The God Who Is Happening

The Journey Home

Nothing Is Exiled

Beyond Fragmentation

We Are Part of the Great Unfolding

Embracing the Freedom of Enough

Embracing the Freedom of Enough

Religion in an Unfinished Universe

The Necessity of Order for Transformation

The Ongoing Conversation

Out of Exile

The Freedom of Simplicity

Transforming Ancestral Trauma into Resilience

The Freedom of Letting Go

Healing the Wounds of Exile

Contemplative Steadiness in a World Unraveling

The Liberation of Simplicity

Praise

Everything Is Gone

A Prayerful Exile

The Freedom Found in Enough

A Litany of Liberation

Seeing as We Are

To Will One Thing

Beholding

Welcome

The Earth Is Speaking

Through Creation, Not Above It

Living in Harmony with Who You Are

Belonging to the Earth

The Quiet Return of the Divine Feminine

The Sacred Art of Listening

Everything Belongs

Awakened by the Ordinary

Grace in the Ongoing Journey

Kinship Is Our Superpower

The Vastness Within You

The Currency of Gratitude and Reciprocity

The Wild Places That Heal Us

Learning Respect for Life

Flourishing Is Mutual

Awakening to the Sacred in All Things

Living the Commitment of Resurrection

Seeing Nature Differently

Every Body is Holy

Living the Resurrection

Entering the Sacred Through the Concrete

Resurrection People

To Create is to Consent to the Sacred

Rising to Life

Entering Silence with Awareness

Transformation at the Bottom

Where the Spirit Creates

Death into Life

You Are Already Called

When Jazz Becomes Prayer

Resurrection Is the Way Things Work

Art as a Gateway to Transformation and Connection

An Example for Us All

Shared Hope

Art as a Gateway to the Depths

A Universal Message

Learning to Stay

Becoming Available to Love

Resting in the In-Between

Love That Softens the Heart

Awakened in the Now

Praying for Softened Hearts

Participate Instead of Dominate

Death and Resurrection

Spirituality as Radical Resilience

Releasing Control

The Cost of Love

Cultivating a New Heart

Surrendering to Love

Surrender Leads to Trust

The Holiness of Time

Surrendering All

Releasing the False Self

Transcending Dualism

Fidelity to the Inner Flame

The Path of Descent

Awe in the Everyday

Recovering the Prophet's Voice

A Moment of Divine Fire

Wrestling with the Word

The Barriers to True Love

The Divine is Everywhere

The Deserts in Our Lives

The Standard of Divine Love

The Deserts in Our Lives

Resurrection Is Now

Inner Freedom

Returning to What Is True

Cultivating Inner Freedom

Dawn’s Radiant Light

The Quiet Truth

The Sacred Meal of Transformation

The Incarnate Pattern of Resurrection

Serve with Grounded Compassion

Ezekiel: Redemption and Grace

Resurrection Fuels Hope and Action

Illuminate Life

Hope, Justice, and Liberation

The Pattern That Transforms Everything

Live a Different Kind of Freedom

Voices of Hope and Justice

Love Will Have the Final Word

Surrendering to the Unknown

The Collapse of Moral Calculations

The Sacred Art of Lingering

Grounded, Honest, Centered

The Prophetic Call is Always Social

We Do Not Know What We Are Doing

Practices Sustain Us

The Arc of Grace and Transformation

Love Unveils the Illusion of Fear

Choosing Love

Alchemy: Embracing the Journey of Whole-Making

Lighting the Path to Healing and Justice

Squads of Love

Rehumanizing (part 2)

Wholeness in the Journey

The Illusion of Separation

Inner Clarity and Resistance

Rehumanizing (part 1)

The Transformative Power of Collective Suffering and Hope

A Gospel of the Forsaken

A Different Way Forward

Shared Sorrow and the Path to Healing

Breaking the Cycle of Blame and Fear

Trust the Tears

The Path of Loving Solidarity

Letting Things Be Enough

A Deeper Holding On

Job: A Journey of Divine Freedom and Unconditional Love

Social Justice as a Social Construct

Awakening in the Ordinary

Sustained by the Light

Lessons from John the Baptizer

Social Justice in the Bible vs. Today

Awakening to Sacred Presence

Stillness

Jonah: When Mercy Defies Expectations

Listening for the Hidden Current

Centering Prayer

Elijah: Beyond the Fire

Everyday Mystics

Recognizing Your Thoughts

Unfinished Prophets

Everyday Mysticism

Learning to See Anew

The Unsettling Power of Unconditional Love

Everyday Mysticism

A Blueprint

Breaking the Chains of Violence

Welcoming Reality: Trusting the Wisdom of What Is

Beyond Borders, Beyond Self

Healing the Collective:

Awakening to the Reality of Love

Acts of Compassion

The Reluctant Prophet

Honoring What Is Real

Hospitality

Jeremiah: Embracing Exile and Renewal

The Sacred Struggle for Breath

God’s Solidarity with the Stranger

Encouraging Holy Disorder

Living a World of Beauty

Choosing Loyalty in Uncertainty

The Prophet's Call and the Cost of Truth

Seeing Beyond Ourselves

Welcoming the Stranger

Embracing Holy Disorder: The Prophetic Path to Transformation

The Really Real

Aging with Curiosity

Divine-Human Love

Earth’s Breath, Our Breath

Give a Gift

Love Alone is Enough

Carrying Truth in Uncertain Times

The Sacred Within All Things

Freedom of Forgiveness

Whispers of the Faithful Few

Living the Gift of Reciprocity

Expansive Compassion and Freedom

The Roots of Injustice

Sacred Earth

Love in all Things

A Vision for Collective Transformation

Listening to Earth's Wisdom

Surrender to the Love

A Journey Through Order, Disorder, and Reorder

Awakening to the Quiet Presence

The Endless Flow of Grace

The Prophetic Journey

The Soul of Nature

The Gift of Tears

The Sacred Cry of Life

Cooking Anger

Sitting with Reality

Embodying Divine Love

Be Angry

Listen, Grieve, and Move

Prophetic Disruption

Anger and Grief

Our Weeping

The General Dance

The Fire that Guides

Honoring Our Anger and Grief

Pure Love

On the Nature of Reality

Rage as Sacred Love

Courage to Name What Hurts

Sharing the Fruits of Contemplation

Anger as Transformation

Tears Move Us

Inward Destitution

Home in the Divine

We are not Self-Created

Renunciation

Adaptability

Discovering Christianity

A Knowing

The Wrong Flame

Become Fully Alive

The Evolution of Consciousness

Willingness

Journey Through the Wilderness

Love and Wisdom

Mercy that Restores

Dancing with the Divine

The Night of the Senses

Emotions & Transformative Potential

Shifting our Vision

The Flowing Light of Divine Love

Live Accordingly

The Gift of Understanding

Healing Transformation

Nurturing the Divine Seed Within

Attuning Ourselves

Distractions

Let Yourself Fall

Resonating with Divine Harmony

Open, Responsive and Collaborative

Mental Prayer

The Sacred Journey Within

The Mystical Path

Solidarity

Detachment

Becoming Fire in the World

Toward Wholeness

The Dance of Solidarity

What Is Liberty?

The Radiance Within

The Cosmic Perspective

The Living World

Love is the Heart of Our Humanity

Freedom Under Obedience

Toward Real Freedom

Reconnecting with Nature's Wisdom

The Four Secrets That Will Change How You See People

Humility Against Despair

The Fire Within Us

Honor Every Story

Rivers of Freedom

He Who Is Not with Me Is against Me

A Flame That Cannot Be Extinguished

Our Interconnected Stories

The Fullness of the Story

The Woman Clothed with the Sun

The Fire That Restores

The Four Domes of Meaning

Becoming Whole People

Life in Christ

The Path of the Mystic is Within Us

The Cosmic Egg

Shared Silence

The Mystery of Christ

The Power of Our Shared Humanity

Longing for the Infinite

Returning to Stillness

Tradition and Revolution

Love as the Core of Our Humanity

A Journey Home

Sound of the Genuine Within

From Faith to Wisdom

Love is a Practice of Liberation

A Journey to Freedom

Abiding Love

Faith

Breaking Free from the Old Stories

Brimming from the Heart

A Journey to Divine Oneness

Hell as Hatred

The Power of Enough

A Journey to the Heart of Reality

Mysticism and Deep Awareness

The Root of War is Fear

Rising Above the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Direct Encounter with the Divine

Unveiling the Secret

Courage, Doubt, and Transformation

A Renewed Mind

Awakening the Mystic Within

Prophetic Courage

Integrity

Gaining Equanimity

Liberation, Love, and Justice

Prophetic Courage

The Moral Theology of the Devil

The Strength to Honor Our Fear

Unconventional Wisdom

Trust, Right Action, and Faithful Presence

The Pure Heart

Faith, Openness, and Connection

Trust and Right Relationship

Everything Finally Belongs

Learn To Be Alone

Joy

The Prophet Within

The Holy Ground of the Broken Heart

A Body of Broken Bones

Collective Liberation

The Prophet-Mystic's Journey

Call Us to Love

Strength in the Midst of Chaos

Awakening the Inner Prophet

Stand in Solidarity

We Are One Man

Through the Struggle, We Rise

Being Fully Seen

The Prophet's Journey

Solitude Is Not Separation

Light Grows Within Us

Standing Tall

Healing at the Center

Union and Division

From Isolation to Connection

The Healing Heart

No One is Alone

Pray for Your Own Discovery

Choose a Different Way

Hope or Renewal

A Restorative Consciousness

Reflect Divine Radiance

Healing Touch

Things in Their Identity

Everything That Is, Is Holy

Reject Domination

Becoming Whole

Positive Repossession

Seeds of Contemplation

Caught in Stories that Divide

Healing

Anchoring in Authentic Self

A New Story

Healing Presence

Loving Imperfectly

What Contemplation is Not

Tears

Compassion and Equanimity

Universal Love

Imperfection

What is Contemplation?

Courage—The Quiet Resolve

Freedom to Simply Be

Imperfection

Mystery and Growth

Honest Self-Reflection

Self-Care

Victory Over the Dark Powers

Defiant Joy

A Journey to Wholeness

Sacred Flashes and Glimmers

Responsiveness over Reactivity

The Sacred in the Ordinary

Loving our Enemies

Refine our Hearts

Loving Our Enemies

Honesty with Ourselves

Dynamic Trust

Embracing the Shadow

In Respect and Connection

Wonder in Everyday Life

Ancestral Echoes

Building Relationships

Living Contradictions

We Belong to Each Other

Sisterhood of Unity

Resilient Beyond Measure

Oneness

Living Expressions of Love

The Wisdom of Paradox

Radiating Love

What You Are

Paradox Holds Us

Awakening to Equality

Ripple Outward to Others

Creative Nonviolence

Living Examples

Awakening to Higher Consciousness

Hold the Tension of Paradox

Illuminating the Path

Spirit will Provide

Reclaim Attention

Rekindling the Divine Spark Within

Our Being and Becoming

A Steady Contemplative Foundation

Ripples of Healing

Spirituality in the Struggle

Mysticism and Social Action

Inner Renewal / External Change

The Egalitarian Vision

Collective Care

Like Dandelion Seeds

New Wine, New Wineskins

The Foundation of Hope

A Transformative Journey

The Love Movement

Engaged Humanity

Awakening to the God Movement

Cultural Movements

Active Engagement

The Cycle of Spiritual Evolution

Grounded in Love

A Call to Courageous Contribution

Centered in Love, Working for Justice

Authentic Influence

Shared Faith and Hope

Salt and Light

Salt and Light

Powerlessness and Surrender

Freedom

Illuminating Light

The Village Response

True Freedom

Salt Matters