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Nature, Electricity, and Grace
An acquaintance of mine once walked the Appalachian Trail, or most of it, a classic expression of the historic American passion to get “back to nature…
Apr 22
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Paul Santmire
Part 2: Here Come the Nones – There Go the Nuns?
Part One of this essay, Here Come the Nones, There Go the Nuns?, dealt with the now widely celebrated emergence of a relatively new and widespread kind…
Apr 10
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Paul Santmire
March 2024
John 3:16 and Holy War
That great and much publicized biblical text, John 3:16, came up in the church’s lectionary this Lent, as many worshippers may recall. Here it is, in…
Mar 22
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Paul Santmire
Lenten Reflections: More Than Spirituality? Practicing the Presence of God*
Guest Essay by Br. Curtis Almquist, Society of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge, MA If the notion of a “spiritual practice” claims your attention…
Mar 14
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Paul Santmire
Lenten Reflections: The Jesus Prayer Revisited
At one point in my book, Before Nature: A Christian Spirituality (Fortress 2014), I allude to my encounter with the Orthodox Church’s celebration of the…
Mar 1
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Paul Santmire
January 2024
Here Come the Nones – There Go the Nuns?
Students of American religious life have observed for decades that recent generations have been abandoning active Church participation in huge numbers…
Jan 30
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Paul Santmire
September 2023
Brace Yourself: Natural Images for the Trinity
Martin Luther once reflected, in his own down-to-earth way, about how to instruct new believers who already have faith in God as the Father, but who do…
Sep 11, 2023
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Paul Santmire
August 2023
The Avocado and the Onion
Idiosyncratic Spiritual Reflections
Aug 14, 2023
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Paul Santmire
July 2023
A Different Kind of Cathedral: Fenway Park
Sometimes the longest way ‘round is the shortest way there. I aim to talk about Fenway Park here, but first I want to take you around the world of…
Jul 11, 2023
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Paul Santmire
June 2023
The Future of the American Church:
A Typo for Further Reflection
Jun 12, 2023
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Paul Santmire
April 2023
What EcoTheology Books Do I Recommend?
When I published my first book in ecotheology in 1970, Brother Earth, I was one of a very few theologians who were interested in this field. Things have…
Apr 14, 2023
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Paul Santmire
March 2023
Praying All the Time?
Who would even think about praying all the time? But brace yourself. That’s not only possible. It can be a blessing. Over the years I have developed a…
Mar 16, 2023
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Paul Santmire
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