Month: May 2014

  • A Hidden Wholeness Chapter 2 – Sketchnotes

    Over the next ten weeks or so we at Camas Friends Church are working through Parker Palmer’s book, “A Hidden Wholeness: A Journey Toward an Undivided Life.” I will continue to post our discussion guides and the sketchnotes here for those who may be interested in using them for your own study or small group discussions. Here…

  • Sketchnotes from Palmer’s “A Hidden Wholeness” Chapter 1

    We are reading through Quaker author Parker Palmer’s wonderful book, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life. As a part of my preparation for leading the group I am making sketchnotes of the chapters. Here are the sketchnotes for the prelude and chapter one and here are the discussion questions from those same chapters. If…

  • Finding Healing After a Suicide

    I wrote an article last summer about some of the healing process I have been working on in relation to my step-dad’s suicide. Friends Journal picked up the article, redid a little of it and has published it this month in their issue on mental health. If you’d like to read it, listen to the…

  • A Convergent Model of Hope is Ready To Share

    I finished my dissertation, “A Convergent Model of Hope: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture,” last November. But it is finally rolling out so that it can be shared with others. I know it’s the case that dissertations aren’t always thought of as super interesting things to read but let’s not underestimate how…