If you are yourself in a season of estrangement or distance from the Church but feel pressured to come home to mass this Christmas, I invite you to read this as you consider your relationship to the parts of you that are needing the distance from Church and/or God. Christmas and Easter are often...

I am a little embarrassed to share this with you, but in the years 2009-2015, my spiritual life had such a steep, continuous "ascent" in terms of how close I felt to God, how consistent I was in my prayer and sacramental life, and how much I learned intellectually about my faith that I actually t...

At this time of spiritual midlife, we experience a series of rude inner awakenings where we begin to see things about the inner state of our souls that we had not had the ability to see before. We suddenly realise that our relationship with God - even if it has been growing in depth and emotiona...

In my last newsletter post, I shared that I will be focusing my content "towards interior pilgrims who are ready to explore deeper questions, and who have begun to enter or have entered 'spiritual mid-life'." In this post I will elaborate more about 'spiritual mid-life' so that you can try to ide...

Hello friends, I know that I've been quiet these past few months on Begin Again, and that's because I've been out of words to write here and the last thing I wanted to do was to write just for the sake of writing. One thing I'm adamant about Begin Again is that it should not be just noise, and un...