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I recently returned from a gathering at Windstone Farm , where we reflected on Lilias Trotter's life and work with Jennifer Trafton....

Recently I’ve come across a few books which have made me feel seen in aspects of my life and longings. I suspect it’s not incidental that these authors have experienced enduring health issues, something that has shaped my life these past few years in ways I’m still trying to understand. “This Homeward Ache” by Amy Baik Lee is on living with a view to the restoration God is bringing about, a future that doesn’t diminish the beauty of here and now, but is manifest in it. She we

So where’s the belonging, you may ask? I’ve written more about beauty here, possibly because this has seemed safer, less exposed and vulnerable. I recognize my inclination to hide behind other peoples’ thoughts, art, stories. Maybe I’m about to do this again. Photo by Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov on Unsplash Lately I’ve been encouraged by Elizabeth Oldfield, her discussions on attending well and charitably navigating difference - rather needed in the current political climate on b

Mary Oliver’s timely poem “ The Summer Day ” keeps turning up. First in a Southborough L’Abri lecture by Sarah Chestnut, which I listened...

Since returning from travels, I’ve revisited Alain de Botton’s reflections on homecoming in “The Art of Travel”. He wonders if we might ...

For the last few months I've been thinking about Hagar, who shows up in many of Rembrandt’s sketches and etchings. In the artist’s...

Portrait of Titus, Rembrandt (1653) A letter I read months ago, by Henri Nouwen, has become quite unexpectedly relevant: just a little...