(USE THIS FORM to submit your questions for the 50th podcast episode.)Or better yet, share your question as a voice recording and I'll do my best to feature it on a future podcast. Please share your n...  Read More

(USE THIS FORM to submit your questions for the 50th podcast episode.)Or better yet, share your question as a voice recording and I’ll do my best to feature it on a future podcast. Please share your n...  Read More

The masculine initiation can often be characterized not as a series of high achievements, but rather as a series of humiliations of the false self.Within the span of a single month last year, the worl...  Read More

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. Let this become the most important thing in your life.- Brennan Manning, Abba’s ChildWhen we e...  Read More

It is the pungent aroma of elk that catches me first, a musk unlike any other in the wild. And it is intoxicating to a bowhunter. The prehistoric smell is a sure sign of close proximity to these giant...  Read More

Growing up, my dad was my hero. He was everything I wanted to become. He was strong, yet playful. His courage taught me how to stand up for those in need. He was daring and always dreaming up and inve...  Read More

What would it be like to burst with joy and feel ten feet tall?(1) If that were available, where would you find it, and how would you make it last? I invite you wonder about the *more* that is possibl...  Read More

This was no place for an Xbox. Or any digital device for that matter. Though there were no “danger” signs posted, the heavy equipment, hum of the air compressor, and repeated firing of the nail gun ma...  Read More

A wise man once offered these words:In the larger-than-life people I have met, I always find one common denominator: in some sense, they have all died before they died. At some point, they were led to...  Read More

Friends, if you're looking for more on the Daybreak Prayer, you've come to the right place. First, a few quick links:Listen to the Daybreak PrayerListen to the Daybreak Prayer (female voice)Watch the ...  Read More

His joy was infectious.  And every circumstance and every outcome of this moment was not conducive to joy.  Paul was a beaten, broken man.  He had suffered physical abuse, spiritual abuse, emotional a...  Read More

We'd gathered back at the WilderLodge after a full day of typical family life. Joshua stood outside to the right of the front steps taking a leak, making a large arc and clearly preparing for the snow...  Read More

"Wilderness adventure is like reading a good book [a page and] a chapter at a time. The last page is usually pretty good because you've read the whole book." –Tavis Molnar  (Arctic Red Outfitters)“Do ...  Read More

A young apprentice once asked Dallas Willard,“What books do you recommend reading?”Dallas, after a long pause (there is always a long pause with Dallas), responded,“I recommend a few. And to read thos...  Read More

It all started with one shimmering pair of pink cowgirl boots.My then two-year-old princess, clothed in her leotard, would tug them on with a grin, then twirl with delight. And melt this daddy-heart o...  Read More

It wasn’t at all what I expected.A long driveway meandered up a gentle rise under an extensive canopy of Colorado ponderosa pines. On my left, a creek drainage harbored a well-worn treehouse. Early ev...  Read More

A young man once asked Dallas Willard this question: On normal days, what does your prayer life and daily rhythm look like?After that quintessential and thoughtful pause of his, Dallas carefully offer...  Read More

Since the inception of this blog over six years ago, my deep and sincere hope has been to strengthen the hearts and souls of men who are choosing the long, costly, and thrilling road of internal trans...  Read More

The 2017 Become Good Soil Intensive events in Colorado and Australia are approaching.We will be accepting applications now through November 15, 2016.The images below link to applications and more deta...  Read More

“[Grieving] requires a lot of love, and love is a harsh comforter, because only love makes genuine loss possible. You can’t lose what you never loved.”Richard Lischer, Stations of the Heart“There is a...  Read More

We pierced the veneer of outside things. We suffered…and had grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in all his splendours, heard the text that nature renders. We had reached the nak...  Read More

I am a yoga junkie.There.  I said it.Picture me at my first class—in a sea of women in black, stretchy pants.I had never been more uncomfortable in my life.It took years of Cherie gently prodding for ...  Read More

The following is a reflection I wrote after ongoing ventures in recent years through the Message paraphrase of Matthew 21:12-18, the passage commonly referred to as “The Clearing of the Temple.” My ho...  Read More

“And his strength left him.” Judges 16:9The seizure was shocking enough. My youngest brother, known by us all as Lucky Lance, was the luckiest one of us all, at least up until then. He had the great h...  Read More