A friend and I were discussing our present seasons of spirituality. She summarized hers this way: “It’s a collaboration.” If we follow God, we also collaborate with him. In true collaboration there is room for diversity of personal opinions, discussion, divergence, disagreement and, as a result, new and creative ways of believing and practicing belief. […]

What forms does it take? What shapes and patterns? What stories reveal and explain it? What does leaving look like for you? Is it geographical, familial, spiritual, personal? Did you leave or were you left? Did you leave because you were left behind by family, community, friends, church, even God? Do you feel forsaken by […]

You can’t tell me that God does not break his (or her or its) own rules and move past his own boundaries (or perhaps they’re only ours, human) to meet those on the edge or who have jumped off, who left. To sit with them in their pain and the story of their leaving, whether […]