Garden Soul
Sweet soul, you’re lost again, your heart tangled in your ego’s vines, your mind cluttered with the weeds of uncertainty, the thorns of...
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STEPHEN COPELAND
AUTHOR & STORYTELLER
How Monasticism Can Shape Our Souls and Our World
My borderline obsession with monks began about four years ago with Trappist monk and renowned author Thomas Merton. I had seen Merton...
The Mystery of the Night
I have always dreaded the inescapable reality of sleep. It reminds me of my finitude, my overall frailty, the reality that my body cannot...
A Critic's Prayer
Whatever happened today, whatever successes, whatever failures, whatever distractions, let it go. There will be another day. And if there...
Why I wrote ‘Holy Saturday’ on my whiteboard three months ago
I have a whiteboard hanging in my living room on which I write mantras and quotes and ideas and other random things like grocery lists...
How I hope to take Christmas into the new year
In Thomas Moore’s The Soul of Christmas, a book written for Christians and non-Christians alike, he writes: “Christmas is a...
Mystic of my mind, seeker of my soul
Much of my life revolves around questions. As someone who enjoys theology, I love posing a question to, or about, the divine from the...
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