by Rob Field | Mar 5, 2023 | Inspiration
The True Wonder of Life? It’s People, People, People by CSW Director Rob Field There’s a saying I love from the indigenous people of New Zealand. It goes like this: If you ask what is the greatest thing, I will tell you:It is people, people, people.... 
by Rob Field | Feb 5, 2023 | Inspiration
by CSW Director Rob Field It’s the major spiritual practice shared by all the great religious traditions of the world. Pilgrimage not only means travelling to a different place. It also involves a passage from home to sacred spaces in order to deepen our... 
by Rob Field | Dec 4, 2022 | Inspiration
The Light That Never Goes Out and Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere” by CSW Director Rob Field An old song I love has a refrain that’s been stuck in my head for a couple of days: “There is a light and it never goes out, there is a... 
by Rob Field | Oct 1, 2022 | Inspiration
On the Power of Beauty by CSW Director Rob Field Glory be to God for dappled things –For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow. Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty” (1877) Beauty can save us, if we’ll let it. If you’re struck by the... 
by Cindy | Sep 29, 2022 | Inspiration
by CSW Associate Terry Decker On Sept. 8, the Center launched a new discussion series called A Little About A Lot. By all measures the launch was a success: people attended, people engaged, people walked away enriched by the affirmation that we are fellow... 
by Rob Field | Sep 4, 2022 | Inspiration
by Rob Field, CSW Director As I write these words, I am waiting for God, and a dog. Like every other spiritually-minded person, I am always waiting for God (if “God” doesn’t compute for you, please substitute some other higher power or source...