Crisis and Crossroads
Kyle Kramer
October 4, 2020
COVID-19 is still wreaking havoc on communities across the country. I have no way of knowing what will happen next week or next month.
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Kyle Kramer
Kyle Kramer is executive director of the Passionist Earth and Spirit Center in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a regular contributor to St. Anthony Messenger and the author of Making Room: Soul-Deep Satisfaction through Simple Living (Franciscan Media).
The Power of Home
Kyle Kramer
September 15, 2020
This fall marks six years since my family and I sold our 27-acre organic farm and the house we had designed and built ourselves—the place my wife and I thought we’d call home our entire lives.
Stop. Listen. Learn.
Kyle Kramer
August 27, 2020
Earlier this year, I adopted a “sit-spotting ” nature meditation practice, which I wish I’d started doing a long time ago.
Every other morning, before dawn, I hike back into the forest behind our rural home, to a secluded spot where a spring-fed stream tumbles down layers of exposed limestone. I sit there for about half an hour, watching a small stretch of the stream and listening to the sounds of the water and the woodland. I journal for a bit, then I hike back home.
Hope & Humility: Our Weapons against COVID-19
Kyle Kramer
July 2, 2020
Most of us want to believe that the world is fundamentally predictable and safe.
Giving Up on Giving Up: A Lenten Reflection
Kyle Kramer
May 16, 2020
Years ago, as Lent approached, I asked a trusted spiritual counselor what he was going to give up. He gave me a sly grin and said, “I’m giving up giving things up for Lent.”
God Wastes Nothing
Kyle Kramer
March 25, 2020
If we are called to conform ourselves and our culture to the nature of God and the nature of nature, then we can’t simply throw away things.
Caring for Creation
Kyle Kramer
August 15, 2019
Ecological spirituality is a way of love, a way of moderation, gratitude, wonder, praise, care, and communion with creation.
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