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May 2024

May 07, 2024

How Are We Called to Live?: More About Why Than About What

How Are We Called to Live? Many of us struggle with discerning how we are...

May 02, 2024

A Spiritual Practice of Reading: Join Us Online

A Spiritual Practice of Reading A healthy spiritual practice of reading is more than simply...

April 2024

April 25, 2024

Taking a Deep Breath, and Another: Finding Time to Breathe

Taking a Deep Breath This seems like an excellent opportunity for many of us to...

April 23, 2024

Listening to Our Own Rhythms: When Will We Pause to Listen?

Listening to Our Own Rhythms One of the things I like most about my life...

April 18, 2024

Seeking Peace in a Time of Conflict: Where Do We Turn?

Seeking Peace When There is No Peace We live in a world where seeking peace...

April 16, 2024

Practicing Community: How Do We Connect?

How Are We Practicing Community? We all thirst for community, yet we are each practicing...

April 11, 2024

A Matter of Life and Death: Which Are We Choosing?

A Matter of Life and Death We know something is important when it is a...

April 09, 2024

Discerning the Next Steps on Our Path

Some of us appreciate a clearly marked path. I am one of those people who...

April 04, 2024

A Free Weekend

A Free Weekend One practice I am working to develop this year is taking a...

April 02, 2024

There is Always More

There is Always More We stand on a beach looking out over the expanse of...

March 2024

March 28, 2024

Why is Easter Important?

What Makes Easter Important? When I hear people talk about Easter it sounds like the...

March 26, 2024

Is This a Particularly Holy Week?

What Makes This Week So Holy? It is not because these eight days are measurably...

March 21, 2024

Bathing in the Stillness of Lent

Bathing in the Stillness of Lent Are we bathing in the stillness of Lent this...

March 19, 2024

Completing a Contemplative Lent

Completing a Contemplative Lent The liturgical season of Lent ends this weekend on Palm Sunday....

March 14, 2024

How Are We Practicing Ramadan?

How Are We Practicing Ramadan? Islam is not the religious background which has shaped me....

March 05, 2024

Having a Good Lent

Having a Good Lent We are almost three weeks into the liturgical season of Lent....

February 2024

February 29, 2024

What Could We Do With One Extra Day?

What Could We Do With One Extra Day? Many of us live our lives in...

February 27, 2024

Searching for Light in the Darkness

Searching for Light in the Darkness We live in a world of deep darkness, searching...

February 15, 2024

Listening to the Stillness of Lent

Listening to the Stillness of Lent Are we listening to the stillness of Lent this...

February 13, 2024

Spiritual Spring Cleaning

Spiritual Spring Cleaning A contemplative Lent is our opportunity to begin some serious spiritual spring...

February 08, 2024

My Stepping Stones From Evangelical to Contemplative

My Stepping Stones from Evangelical to Contemplative Spiritual life invites me to discover the stepping...

February 06, 2024

We Strain to Catch a Glimpse of the Sacred

We Strain to Catch a Glimpse of the Sacred It is easy for us to...

February 01, 2024

The Feast Day of Saint Brigid

The Feast Day of Saint Brigid Today is the Feast Day of Saint Brigid, also...

January 2024

January 30, 2024

Looking Beyond What Our Eyes See

What Our Eyes See We trust what our senses tell us and what we experience....

January 25, 2024

Why Are Some Books More Enjoyable Than Others?

Why Are Some Books More Enjoyable Than Others? A healthy practice of reading is more...

January 23, 2024

Making a New Beginning

Making a New Beginning Each new beginning is a link in a chain which stretches...

January 18, 2024

Practicing Urban Contemplation

Urban Contemplation Some of us apparently believe it is impossible to practice urban contemplation. We...

January 16, 2024

Learning How to Pay Attention

Learning How to Pay Attention Many of us like to think we are good listeners,...

January 11, 2024

Going Beneath the Surface

Going Beneath the Surface We think listening to sacred stillness is like stretching out and...

January 09, 2024

Where Do We Look For God?

Where Do We Look For God? Some of the people who come to me for...