how might we speak the truth in love about what we are? can naming ourselves be a practice of hospitality that nourishes interbeing?

what i am, i think, is an evolving, open question learning how to understand and love in our more-than-human world.

tenderly. with mindfulness.

to participate in “the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

other names:

teacher. ethnographer. christian theologian. soul friend.

phd from the graduate theological union in berkeley. certificate in spiritual direction from san francisco theological seminary. ba + ma from vanguard university. research and teaching experience at stanford, uc berkeley, the university of washington, and seattle university.

i have also had the sweet pleasure of serving as an interim pastor for two Quaker Meetings in the Pacific Northwest - and as co-coordinator of the (re)Emerging Scholars and Practitioners of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality.

each day walking with my beloved, evelyn ja — and our animal companion, xin-xin.