Archive - Jon Ogden

When Will We Learn the Virtue of Enough?

From Congress to Wall Street to Silicon Valley...

Jan 8 •

August 2024

Expand Enough and You'll Go Local

When I was seven years old, my grandma offered me twenty dollars to read the Book of Mormon ahead of my baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of…

Published on Wayfare • Aug 20, 2024

April 2024

A Call for Wild Religion

Resist the Allure of the Perfect

Apr 29, 2024 •

March 2024

We Are Not Machines (Doing Nothing Heals Us)

I’m typing these words on a laptop after cooking breakfast on a stove, loading a dishwasher full of dishes, and driving my kids to school in a car while…

Mar 27, 2024 •

January 2024

My Search for Expansive Spirituality

One Sunday morning when I was a teenager, a member of the stake high council rattled my world when he told our congregation that his favorite book was…

Published on Wayfare • Jan 3, 2024

December 2023

The Power of Now *and* Then

What Would Ebenezer Scrooge Say to Eckhart Tolle?

Dec 14, 2023 •

November 2023

October 2023

Language for Theists and Atheists Alike

In my previous post, I wrote about how religion is a “language” for communicating about the transcendent — a language that uses a bundle of methods…

Oct 5, 2023 •

September 2023

Religion Is a Language: Reza Aslan at BYU

Last night I heard Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, speak at Brigham Young University.

Sep 21, 2023 •

August 2023

The Substacks I Love

I built a following on Medium a year before it became clear that Substack, not Medium, was the future of independent online writing.

Aug 14, 2023 •

April 2023

My Slumps and Highs With Mindfulness

Plus an Invitation to Join in Person

Apr 27, 2023 •

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