My friend, Art, once complained about spiritual direction: “There’s a lot of weak tea out there.” When I was in my twenties, I went through three spiritual directors before finding a sensible Jesuit brother. The first three were lay women who were either too nice to ask good questions or had very particular ideas about […]
Archives for January 2014
Mentors: The Christian Century 
January 19, 2014 by
The Christian Century accepted a piece I wrote about “Mentors” and it was published in the January 22 issue. I wrote about my time as a pastor in rural western Massachusetts. The other pieces are interesting, too – my favorite is the one about the unwelcome pastor in South Africa. My piece is about halfway […]
