Library of Resources

  Spend 5 minutes with a pen and paper, and write as much as you…

Autumn. What is that silent “n” all about anyway? It should be dropped quietly, like…

Drew asks Br. David questions ranging from ones about his health and well-being, to Christian…

Two expressions of the mystery: one of sudden joy and arriving, one of profound grief…

Q: I wonder is your site religion-based?  I am a nontheist Quaker.  I love all the…

This short film traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism…

Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark…

When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of…

This short video meditation by Br. David Steindl-Rast awakens us to the wonders of our…

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are…

If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the…

The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. “In…

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come…

What if you discovered that living with awareness and intention, focusing on what makes you…

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change….

And homeward led my steps. Magnificent The morning rose, in memorable pomp, Glorious as e’er…

Even at 90 years old and 84 pounds, Ms. Z still had quite a presence….

When I think how far the onion has traveled just to enter my stew today,…

The world exists just fine without our appreciation. It is not for us that the…

I’m smiling because a million possible alternatives which would have precluded this moment we’re sharing…