The Art of Sacred Listening
To see a video of the service including this sermon, click on this link: “The Art of Sacred Listening” I’ve spent most of my professional life working as a writer,…
More Air
When I left the Bay Area and returned to Santa Fe in April of this year, I was abruptly reminded of how difficult it can be for the body to…
Say “I Love You”
Photo: Hollis Walker It started soon after I began my residency as a hospital chaplain. The first one was a 80-ish woman patient, just someone I was visiting on my…
The Multi-Player Virtual Reality Analogy
I was at the farmer’s market in Berkeley one day a few years ago when I saw an odd-looking man working the crowd, passing out some kind of brochure. He…
The Real Thing
Photo: Hollis Walker While I was doing a residency as a hospital chaplain, a patient of mine who had many gastrointestinal issues developed a problem of which I had never…
Reviving Mary
Photo: Hollis Walker Most of my friends have heard me bemoaning the fact that Protestant Christianity, though more liberal toward women in many respects than Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy, is…