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Meditation on an Image

crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses on crosses to preternal forces to say that it mattered and mattered and matters to maker and whittler and gluer and hanger who...

Summer Camp as Catechetical Lectio Divina

By Joseph Roberts Lectio divina, the ancient practice of reading and meditating on Scripture, has seen a huge resurgence as of late. You can now...

Listening with the Heart

I have always been a reader. Going to the public library weekly was an activity that I treasured as a child. When my faith became...

Seeds of Thanksgiving

By Jonathan Turtle A decade ago now as a seminarian finding his way back into the Anglicanism of his childhood I, along with my wife, landed...

My Pandemic Reading List: Recommendations from a Contemplative

After COVID-19 changed our world last spring, I initially thought not much would change in my life, either. As a contemplative, I believed that...

The Second Commandment: Imagination and Contemplation

Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Mac Stewart One of my favorite TV shows as a little kid was Reading Rainbow. In...

A Spiritual Tool for Social Distancing

By Mother Miriam, CSM In a large group of people, it is easy to get lost, think your own thoughts, find like-minded thinkers or feelers,...

God, Sexuality, & Knots: Sarah Coakley’s théologie totale (a personal appropriation)

Over the course of this extended discussion, did any of us change our mind on any of the issues? Even though we did see how gender politics, trinitarian theology, and our own experience of desire are all connected in a thorny knot, at the end of the day, no, we did not, any of us, change our mind on the issues at hand.

Following Jesus in an Age of Distraction

In an age of near infinite distractions, we must learn — again, and again — to look to him in whom all things hold together.

Reading Contemplatively

While the decline of contemplative reading is a problem for the professor, it’s a threat to the Christian, especially those of us operating within a sacramental tradition.

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