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November 2019

November 16, 2019

How to Be a Busy Parent and Pray Without Ceasing (Guest Post by Dani Kreutter)

“Absolute attention is prayer.” -Simone Weil “This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I...

November 01, 2019

James Baldwin: Prophet of Love

James Baldwin is a prophet for troubled times. Baldwin was a black, gay, renowned novelist...

October 2019

October 18, 2019

Joy and Justice Belong Together

Joy and justice, on the surface, do not seem to go together. Sometimes we might...

October 11, 2019

Beyond Light Supremacy: Let There be Light *and* Darkness

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, God said, “Let there...

October 04, 2019

St. Francis and Loving Animals from “Other” to “Brother”

"It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper as...

September 2019

September 02, 2019

Bless this Mess – Finally, A Must-Read Book about Progressive, Spiritual Parenting

The recent book Bless this Mess, the fruit of a team-up between pastor Molly Baskette...

August 2019

August 21, 2019

Hildegard of Bingen and Jesus on Living a Green Life

Hildegard of Bingen is, to use one writer's phrase (William Harmless), a mystical multimedia artist. She...

August 14, 2019

Hymn to the Cosmic Christ (Why Christ is Not Jesus’s Last Name)

Christ is not Jesus’s last name, as Richard Rohr says so powerfully in his latest book...

August 05, 2019

Marianne Williamson: A Mystic-Activist for President?

Marianne Williamson’s focus on love, and her new book "The Politics of Love," make her...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

The Contemplative and Active Lives are One

The Busy Trap has snagged many readers, I’m sure. I know it has snagged me. We...

July 19, 2019

The Transforming Power of Contemplative Prayer

Why is contemplative prayer so needed in our time? What good does the mystic generate...

July 17, 2019

Dark Nights of the Soul: On John of the Cross, Jonah, and America

So dark the night!...I went with no one knowing upon a lover’s quest –Ah, the...

June 2019

June 07, 2019

Temples, Bodies, and Sacred Space

God wants to meet with us. It goes both ways: we want to meet with...

June 04, 2019

The Sacred Earth – Guest Post by Michael Allan

Is Earth a sacred place for us, given by the hand of the Creator -...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on Prayer, Action, and Unlearning Racism

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a celebrated speaker, writer, and activist living in Durham, North Carolina. He...

April 2019

April 21, 2019

A Universal Resurrection

We grieved this week as Notre Dame Cathedral burned. Many hearts broke while reliving memories...

April 14, 2019

True and False Selves on Palm Sunday

I always have an uneasy feeling on Palm Sunday. I enjoy waving palms in church...

April 10, 2019

Shakers as American Mystics

The Shakers planted some of their most vital outposts of utopia near where I live,...

April 07, 2019

Mary Anoints Jesus for Death and Life (Sermon)

John 12:1-8 Mary’s anointing of Jesus’s feet with oil is slightly embarrassing. The sheer emotion...

March 2019

March 22, 2019

Mystical Oneness, Domination, and Difference

Mystics talk about oneness a lot. Classic definitions of divine intimate encounter often stumble towards...

March 16, 2019

The Dark Night of Sense and the Problem with More – Kosmos Journal

The below is excerpted from my article in Kosmos Journal's Fall 2018 issue. It can...

March 04, 2019

Howard Thurman Teaches Collective Contemplation

Contemplation is not only personal, something to be pursued individually in the “prayer closet.” It...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Contemplation is for Everybody!

Contemplation has burst out of cloistered gates. For centuries, spiritual wisdom has been hidden but...