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Want to learn to swear like St. Paul? That’s right, first century greek cuss words. Skubalon – as in Bull-Skubalon – was the most vulgar word we know of for crap/dung/poop. And St. Paul uses it to describe all the noise and other stuff competing with The Way of Jesus. Because sometimes all the competing […]

There is a HUGE difference between going through the motions, and fully engaging in the art of a thing. Whether riding a motorcycle, practicing martial arts, or exploring our connection to God, just because we can talk about it, invoke catch phrases, know data, and do actions… does NOT mean we are Seeing, or that […]

Desire – most of our lives are influenced (run? dictated?) by what we want, how we want it, when we want it, and what we feel about all of that. And yet, we spend so little time examining the details of what we want and why we want it. True peace, contentment, and freedom come […]

We continue in Sound Bites: 21st Century Proverbs at The Ridge (first podcast in the series!) with “Bandages and Beauty Marks”. We will be talking about something OLD: Order/Disorder/Reorder; something NEW: “Resurrection- I woke up like this”; something BORROWED: Can I borrow a cup of Hope?; and something BLUE: Bruises are blue, right?

Happy Easter my friends! This is the most unique Easter I have experienced in many ways. And for MANY people I deal with day in and day out Easter appears to have zero import/impact on life, even if they pay it lip service. So we are going to talk about the Congruence and Confluence (the […]

Palm Sunday – palm fronds in church or the day to celebrate all heretics??? It’s also the day Ive been planning since this series started to talk about my “Heretic” ink. Weird? Not by a long shot. Anti-Power protests, Anti-corruption parades. Lets dive into the Heretical/Political Street Theater that we now call Palm Sunday. The […]

Have you ever gotten motivated to start a new habit, or put down a bad one, come out of the gate hot with new actions and motivation, only to eventually sputter, get frustrated, and end up back at square one (or worse)? Wash. Rinse. Repeat. That frustrating cycle can seem even worse after a year locked inside our houses and heads staring at the mirror. Let’s try something else: The Jesus Way.

A lot of people wonder if spirituality, faith traditions, or religious beliefs matter at all anymore. Especially during a pandemic. And while a lot of faith traditions stumble by focusing on the HOW of life (doctrines, dogmas, traditions, etc) instead of the WHAT (being better humans and living lives of love, peace, grace, joy, etc) there remains GREAT VALUE in seeking out the ancient wisdom found in faith community. Wisdom. Equanimity. Living a Centered, NonReactive Life. Responding from Wisdom, instead of Reacting in Fear or Anger. Beauty. Love. Joy. Peace.

There is a hidden killer that is stealing people’s joy, purpose, and contentment. It is wiping out careers, finances, and even lives. I am not talking about CoVid-19... I am talking about loneliness. It makes us sick, robs us of many good things, and affects most of us. But it doesn’t have to. I want us to talk about what this loneliness epidemic looks like in the middle of a viral pandemic.

Spiderwebs worn as tattoos on the elbow, back, or knees often tell a story of feeling "Caught in the Web" of the U.S. Criminal Justice System. How do people who seek to live good, spiritual lives - lives modeled after Jesus or the Kingdom of God, for example - interact with that system? Because as good as intentions may be, there are cracks, fissures, and in some cases, total collapse.