Anne Lamott and the Pee-Pee Tweet
OK, honey, you know we love you, right? We love your novels and your essays and your memoirs and your wonderful Facebook posts. We love that you see your own imperfections, which look so much like ours, and that you are so clear that God treasures each of us in the presence of those imperfections, not in spite of them. Read more →
The Necessity of Discomfort
Podcast: Download (19.5MB)
Subscribe: More
Recently, in preparation for my daily practice of mindfulness and prayer, I came across a stunning piece of information. In The Book of Awakening; Having the Life You Want to Have by Being Present to the Life You Have, by the poet Mark Nepo, I learned that a baby chick doesn’t just hatch. Well, it does hatch, but the process of hatching is actually a terrifying event if you look at it from the bird’s perspective. Read more →
Transformation vs. Acceptance
Podcast: Download (Duration: 14:33 — 13.3MB)
Subscribe: More
Transformation is part and parcel of most religious groups. The work of a faith community is to build a better world and to help each other become better people, to be open to the grace of God in our lives. Read more →
The Stream: A Sufi Story
Podcast: Download (2.8MB)
Subscribe: More
A stream, from its course in the far-off mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. Read more →
These are the Times that Grow Our Souls (Excerpt)
Podcast: Download (4.8MB)
Subscribe: More
The America that is best known and most resented around the world pursues unlimited economic growth, technological revolutions, and consumption, with little or no regard for their destructive impact on communities, on the environment, and on the billions of people who live in what used to be called the “Third World.” Read more →
From Your Minister
Podcast: Download (8.1MB)
Subscribe: More
For the past several years, I’ve been part of a group called Transforming Families, in which families that include trans* kids come together for support, information sharing, and fun. Read more →
REsources for Living
Podcast: Download (5.8MB)
Subscribe: More
I can well remember from my childhood that most adults had a very strange habit. Pretty much any time you saw one of your parents’ friends, or an out-of-town relative, they would greet you in exactly the same way… Read more →
Life’s Transformations
Podcast: Download (865.0KB)
Subscribe: More
Read more →To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story…
—Barbara Kingsolver
Did You Know?
Podcast: Download (302.1KB)
Subscribe: More
That CLF’s online worship is now accessible on mobile devices? Read more →
Nighttime, January
Podcast: Download (1.9MB)
Subscribe: More
When breath catches in the crisp night air,
and sight turns to stars, mind to moon,
silence asserts itself,
breathing the beauty of night into being.
Silence, breathing beauty alive. Read more →
