Consider This Archive: 2020-2021

Last Wednesday if you were on campus in New Haven, you might have been enjoying a sunny day, you might have been exhaling a bit as spring was…

This week is Holy Week for Orthodox Christians all over the world. For me, that usually means a couple hours of services every day, on top of…

In many Christian churches, this past weekend, the reading from the Gospel of John focused on the disciples of Jesus hiding in a room together…

I was fortunate enough to get my first vaccine this weekend. As I sat in the gymnasium waiting the 15 minutes until I could leave I was struck by…

Paradoxical thinking—a buzzword that’s become helpful for (re)framing a variety of the problems that occur in our lives. It means being able to…

Hello everyone and happy Spring! Pulitzer prize-winning poet Mary Oliver asks her readers “ Listen – are you breathing just a little and calling…

Now that the one-year anniversary of COVID has arrived, I feel myself trying to make sense of it all. What have I learned this year? How have I…

Has it really been a year already?  Take this time to reflect on what your life has been like this past year.  Have you found more time…

Last February I started taking ukulele lessons at a nearby music academy. With COVID, the lessons moved to online starting in July…

The normal Yale-ish expectations say “no.”  Every day must be an excellent day.  And every day must be more excellent than the one before…

In a typical class or meeting on Zoom, what percentage of the time are you looking at yourself versus at others? Personally, I’m…

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” -Rumi 

This quote by 13th-century Muslim mystic poet, Rumi, can be read in many ways.  On one level…

As we begin this new semester and find ourselves 11 months into this global pandemic I hope that we can continue to be gentle with ourselves…

My Beloved Yale Family, 

We start this semester with a bit of a limp. Our exhaustion from the previous months…

During this time of wintery darkness, continuing multiple unknowns, in a year of heartbreak, fear, chaos and profound loss…

So, we’ve “made it” through. The last week of classes. The precipice of Thanksgiving break. The beginning of the end. Rejoice. I find…

Over the last few weeks with the weather changing, I think I am experiencing a certain sense of withdrawal, not quite a depression, but just…

I recently turned 23. Typical for a birthday—perhaps especially so for the first since graduating into a new chapter of life, and also…

The Christian meaning of grace is “the free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings…

Lately, I have sought to cope with the brokenness in our world by turning to the wisdom of my elders. My grandmother’s worn Bible sits…

When I was 24, I decided to pray for 30 days to find out whether it worked. At first, because the Buddhist tradition in which I was raised…

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”

I reflected on this quote by the Persian poet…

In the beginning of this season of pandemic my internal GPS had to launch a route recalculation practically every day…

I’ve been wondering if spirituality is something extra that we add on top of all our normal work, activities and habits…

As we begin this new academic year, a year that does not look or feel like any other we can remember, as we leave a summer of heartache, protests…