Tag: interfaith

Blessed Are the Nones

Blessed Are the Nones

Enjoy my Collegeville Institute Q&A with Stina Kielsmeier-Cook, whose spiritual memoir Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community was just published. Stina, who identifies as Christian, is married to Josh, who identifies as a “none.” But that wasn’t always the case. 

Introducing the Array of Faith Podcast

Introducing the Array of Faith Podcast

With so little hope, it feels like a good time to share a little light.  Announcing the “Array of Faith” podcast, where we shed light on the beauty in our numerous religious and spiritual differences. Listen. Subscribe. Review. Let us know what you think! As a professor of world 

When Your Dreams Do Come True: Reflections on Five Years as an Author

When Your Dreams Do Come True: Reflections on Five Years as an Author

I’m speechless. Well, sort of. Y’all know that can’t be totally true, because it’s hard to get me to shut up. But today, October 1, 2018, five years after the release of my interfaith memoir Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of a How a Christian Minister Married 

Interfaith Amateurs: Lessons from Our Young Christian-Hindu Marriage

Interfaith Amateurs: Lessons from Our Young Christian-Hindu Marriage

It’s been four-and-a-half years since I published Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk with Upper Room Books. Spoiler Alert! The Christian Minister (me) and the Hindu monk (Fred) are still married (eight years this July), and our 

Big News! Two New Book Contracts and How to Meet Your External and Internal Goals

Big News! Two New Book Contracts and How to Meet Your External and Internal Goals

Did y’all see the BIG news last week? If not, sign up for my newsletter. On Monday, January 8th, I signed TWO new contracts for TWO new books! Each book will be released in spring/summer 2019. My third book will be a 40-day guide to 

Unexpected Sanga: Stumbling into Deep Community

Unexpected Sanga: Stumbling into Deep Community

I was certain we’d hate each other. Many writers experience a push-pull of introversion and ego, of wanting to “see” the world in order to convey it, and longing to convey to the reader what they see. Some of us are envious when the other