Gregg Koskela – Page 14

“Accessible and relevant”

Gregg Koskela bridges the gap between a medieval mystic and the modern reader making the prayerful, poetic passion of Hildegard accessible and relevant. Gregg weaves his own experience as a pastor into this exploration of Hildegard and as a result we are given the gift of …

Finding Hildegard: Best Inspirational/Spiritual Book in 2019 BookLife Prize

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Three Legs on a Broken Stool

Since this is my spiritual retreat, I’ve been focusing on sites that reflect my own Christian spirituality. I’m finding vast micro-worlds to explore, each with its own long history, tradition, values, and emphases. What is it I’m looking for? That’s a fair question, and I …

Divine Sparks

At this point I can’t recall what sparked the journey; but for over a year now, I have been immersing myself in the words of Medieval and Renaissance women. Known as mystics, these diverse women share a powerful, gritty, visceral relationship with God that is …

Bricks

Today I put my hands on these old bricks, bricks surrounding a place full of memories that stretch decades into my past. My past, but not my present. I put my hands on these old bricks, asking blessing for those who do still have a …

Through the Roof

Disruption. Annoyance. Invasion. Before Sunday night, I had never thought those words in regard to one of the stories of Jesus…and now I can’t stop thinking about it that way. It’s my friend and pastor Elizabeth’s fault. The story is in Mark chapter 2. Some …

A Trigger Word Redeemed

This is a guest post. A friend of mine spoke words recently which deserve careful attention by others. For various reasons, she is not able to be public online, so I offered to post her words anonymously. Her story and her thoughtfulness show us a view …

Fire Grew In My Soul

Our stories, our experiences. This is all we really have to share, all we really have to build connections and community with each other. To tell our stories, to share our experiences requires us to reflect, to ponder, to get enough distance from the circling …

And the winner is…

…#5 seed Branches! Thanks for joining in. I must apologize…I will not be doing the planned third round of Advent Caroling Madness, “O Holy Night.” I’ve had a virus/flu that has hung on and sapped my energy, so I didn’t get the bracket created this …

Finals–I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Here we go! Votes in by Sunday at 8 pm PST. #5 Branches vs. #6 Five Strings [polldaddy poll=10191749]