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. …
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 …
“This discipline and posture toward the spiritual, which appears to the decaffeinated as annoying, stems from his five-year tenure as a devout Hindu monk who lived in the Redwoods of Northern California.” –-from “When Monks Say “I Do”: Confessions of a Former Monastic’s Wife, on …
Friends—today is the day! Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of How a Christian Minister Married a Hindu Monk officially releases today. A book is born! Many of you have followed this book journey from the days when Saffron Cross was only a book proposal with no …
Monkey Poo The Saffron Cross manuscript is due to Upper Room Books in one month. This means that the next 31 days will be consumed with reviewing, revising, rewriting, and polishing 54,000 words. It’s like scooping monkey poo with a whisk. Writing a book is not …
I’m grateful to Jeremy Helton and the folks at The Recollective for their interview on Saffron Cross. Enjoy! Jeremy asks great, thought-provoking questions–here’s a sampling: What do you think distinguishes your interfaith marriage from other interfaith marriages? At what point did it occur to you …