How to Start a Meditation Practice When You’re Stressed
How do we keep calm and carry on in chaos? Here are 10 helping coping tips in stressful times.
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Finding God’s Presence Amid COVID-19
How do we find God’s presence amid chaos? One breath at a time.
Coping with Anxiety in a Pandemic
From Sojourners: Nationally, we are experiencing anxiety we haven’t known since 9/11. We haven’t felt this helpless, fragile, and mortal for nearly a generation. So, what are we going to do about it? Read my latest Sojo piece here.
Jonathan Merritt On A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Meditation
In his latest book, Learning to Speaking God from Scratch, best-selling author and religion writer Jonathan Merritt, discusses a chronic pain condition that left him “blurred” and “helpless like Job” (Merritt 96). In a recent post, Merritt adds that he sought out mindfulness meditation and yoga in order …
How to Make 2019 The Best Year Yet–One Breath at a Time
Today is the official Launch Day of One Breath at a Time: A Skeptic’s Guide to Christian Mediation. Yesterday, This is My Body author and dear friend Hannah Shanks told me: “If we ever needed deep breaths and ways to hold onto ourselves, it’s now.” 2018 wasn’t exactly stellar. It’s hard to remember a year that was. …
Three Easy Steps to Beginning and Sustaining a Christian Meditation Practice this New Year
Come December, I find myself anxiously gripping the Church’s new liturgical year in vain; the harder I hold on, the quicker its meaning sifts through my clenched fists. Though I say I’m going to go deeper in my daily devotional practice, I won’t. Though I vow …