Spring 2026

CHANGE “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” runs an old folk wisdom saying. This saying has never seemed so profoundly true as today. So many things change today: a new president in the White House, the seasons, the death of Pope Francis, and the new pope, Leo XIV. Is there anything…

SHELTERED What do we do when everything seems to be so challenging? How do we keep going? Spring 2025 Newsletter in PDF format (3.6MB)

TRAUMA I’m sure that everyone reading this has heard of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. One of the immediate effects is fear. For those closely affected, fear of another random, irrational happening may linger for a long time, perhaps even for life. Grief is another aftereffect: we grieve for those we lost, for the…

STAYING THE COURSE What a challenging year it continues to be—and likely will continue to be as we head towards fall and winter. And so we trudge along in this perilous ‘new normal.’ We endure. But it’s hard. We need to find ways to help ourselves stay the course. Fall 2020 Newsletter in PDF format…

My One Companion is … darkness. We want joy, peace, happiness. But when these are unattainable, is it possible to make darkness, sadness, grief our companions? Summer 2019 Newsletter in PDF format (1.3MB)

FAITH…OR FEAR? From time to time each one of us can confront a dilemma: do we step out and act from a perspective of faith? Or do we instead act out of a senseof fear? Occasionally the fear is telling us something important. Occasionally it is warning us that we’re about to lose our way,…