Updates at joncarllewis.com for the week of 19-25 December 2018.

New Thoughts and Reflections

• Faith seeking understanding #013: Beyond the minimum viable product. A reflection on what I hope to accomplish with each days writing. Published Wed, 19 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #014: The truth, the whole truth…. A reflection on being brutally honest and telling my own truth. Published Thu, 20 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #015: Learning from mindfulness and compassion. Some lessons I’m learning about mindfulness and compassion. Published Fri, 21 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #016: On choosing to enjoy the journey. On how writing is a pleasure for me I refrain from to my own detriment. Published Sat, 22 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #017: Lessons from the cats. On what my cats may be trying to teach me about presence and impermanence. Published Sun, 23 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #018: Standing in awe of Mary. A reflection on the radical nature of the Song of Mary and its implications for my life. Published Mon, 24 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #019: Merry Christmas! A very brief, Christmas greeting. Published Tue, 25 Dec 2018.

Site Updates

• None this week.

Thank you for your time and attention.
I’d love to know your thoughts on what you’ve read.
Please comment, below, or email me at joncarllewis@gmail.com.
May God richly bless you on your journey.

Updates at joncarllewis.com for the week of 12-18 December 2018.

New Thoughts and Reflections

• Faith seeking understanding #006: A call to compassion through mindfulness. A call to compassion from the scriptural account of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery. Published Wed, 12 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #007: On just showing up, on making an attempt. A few words about simply showing up. Published Thu, 13 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #008: On challenging the resistance to write. A cheeky reflection on beating resistance by writing about resistance. Published Fri, 14 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #009: Exploring my hunger for male friendship, part 1. The beginning of a reflection on my hunger for male friendship… and my history of loneliness. Published Sat, 15 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #010: Social fatigue, or Too burnt out to write. A very few thoughts on the tension between time in solitude and time in society I face as a writer. Published Sun, 16 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #011: Finding my faith through spiritual practice. A reflection on my journey from faith to spiritual crisis and back to a faith transformed. Published Mon, 17 Dec 2018.
• Faith seeking understanding #012:Digesting my spiritual food. A reflection on the time it takes to assimilate a number of spiritual lessons. Published Tue, 18 Dec 2018.

Site Updates

• Added Reflections on the Collects page.
• Added Miscellaneous Writings page.

Thank you for your time and attention.
I’d love to know your thoughts on what you’ve read.
Please comment, below, or email me at joncarllewis@gmail.com.
May God richly bless you on your journey.

Updates at joncarllewis.com for the week of 05-11 December 2018.

Continue reading “Weekly updates (12 Dec 2018)” →

Hello! I’ve made a significant number of updates to my website over the past week! Most significantly, I retired my old statement of identity and replaced it with “Jon Carl Lewis: a Queer, Black, Intellectual, Christian contemplative with a compulsion to create stories and write.” This better reflects where I am now in life as well as some of the work I’m doing, both in the world and on myself.
Continue reading “Updates at joncarllewis.com! (18 November 2018)” →

Hello, Folks! It’s been a while. For some reason I decided to expand the Carl LaMonde at Princeton page to talk about my brief but significant time at Princeton Theological Seminary. Continue reading “Updates at JonCarlLewis.com (23 Dec 2017)” →