A few years ago, a piano recital took Mary-Anne and me to an exceptional location — a mansion on the rugged edge of a coastal cliff. Grand piano, ocean below, the same notes, the same evening. And yet two people sitting in the same venue walked away having experienced two different evenings. That’s the heart…
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published It’s my first time here, walking up this hill. Drawn higher by golden rays, the view below unfolds. To my left, ancient and rugged, the valley of rocks with the last rays of the evening sun, ignites. The strangest feeling stirs – an invitation…
On Thursday, September 10, we open enrollment for our first course on thedepth.community — Into the Deep: The Art of Meaning Making. Five weeks, together, on how we actually make meaning — and how to do it more deliberately, and more beautifully. We’re at 28 of 40 on the waitlist already. Everyone on it gets…
Having spent the last couple of days with family, including our two grandsons, I’ve become keenly aware again that meaning, value, and relationship are intertwined. Meaning can be viewed as the unique shape and value of a relational movement. Relationships are more than the movements between us – they are the movements we are made…
On our walk along the coast, we watched surfers navigating massive, unpredictable waves. It struck us as such a beautiful metaphor for life: the waves are going to break no matter what you do, but how we engage with them changes everything.The short video below is a reminder of how you can participate in creating…
Friend, We’ve been building something, and it’s finally ready to show you. Creating meaning does not always have to be a deep spiritual process. Every experience is an interpretation, a way we meet our world and understand it. A simple conversation over a cup of coffee can be a beautiful, satisfying event or just another…
The paragraph below is part of a chapter that contains one of the most inspiring and poetic visions of what God could mean. The chapter comes at the end of Elizabeth Krause’s book The Metaphysics of Experience, as a crescendo to her exploration into the nature of reality. It is a dense paragraph that we’ll…
I pull over near the cliff edge on a quiet stretch of road, drawn by the flash of a whale’s tail in the bay—a quick tease before it vanishes into the blue. These colossal Southern Right mamas travel thousands of miles through stormy seas just to give birth in our quiet waters here in Hermanus….
Dear friend, We’ve been doing a lot of thinking — about what we are doing, who we are doing it for, and what we want the next chapter of this work to look like. You’ve been patient with our inconsistency. The occasional long silence, followed by a burst of content. The different platforms that never…
My latest article, “Girardian Perspectives on Power and Kenarchy in the Apocalyptic Age,” has just been published in The Kenarchy Journal. Hey everyone, I am excited to share that my latest academic paper has just been published in the newest issue of The Kenarchy Journal (Volume 8.5). This article represents a deep dive into themes…