Let’s look deeply into what it means to have a human life where we inhabit a body, a great gift, given for a brief season. We can rejoice...

The word compassion has been used in English since the 14th Century. It comes from the Latin, com- meaning ‘with’ and pati, ‘to suffer,...

Peggy is in her early forties and is married. She works as a writer and has expanded her career to include landscape painting. She is...

Claire is a forty year old writer and mother of two boys. She is tall, slender and fair with a soft Southern voice. Her life centers...

I have a vision of a great pouring out showering down on us all from off in the heavens. Great streams of light . . . not surprising with...

George recently turned forty and has one son. After spending several years as a priest in the Liberal Catholic Church, he is currently...

I’m a water baby. We lived in Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, but it turns out the ocean is my beloved. One of my finest early...

About four years ago I suddenly found myself paying attention to trees. I’ve always loved them. I have been a tree-hugger since...

As we drove north from Auckland into Maori country, Victoria asked me if I’d like to visit Tane Mahuta, the 2000+ year old kauri tree...