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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...

October 2019

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...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

Retrieving Angels, or Why Faith Must be at Least as Strange as the Universe

The universe is strange. Here are a few paraphrased facts from an article I stumbled across: If you...

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 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...

May 2019

May 22, 2019

Two Books to Help You Pray From Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox is a prolific writer, from whom creative spirituality passionately pours forth. His two...

May 15, 2019

Mary Magdalene: the Movie and the Myth

Last week, my local independent cinema in Williamstown, MA showed a one-time showing of the...

May 13, 2019

Praise, Wonder, and John Muir

Wonder is a word for a life saturated with praise. Regardless of belief system, we...

May 08, 2019

A Tale of Cosmic Revolution – (On Copernicus and Rheticus)

Note to the reader: This narrative is a summary in my own words of the...

April 2019

April 10, 2019

Shakers as American Mystics

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