mysticism

Communities of spiritual fellowship and prayer form oases for both clear thinking and social witness. So thought Evelyn Underhill.

"I feel God all around me.” My daughter, 6, said to me right before she drifted off to sleep. More often than not, the last...

Phoebe Pettingell reviews Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias.

Every year The Living Church’s student essay contest draws several excellent submissions. The first-place essay will be published in the October issue of The...

This essay is excerpted from chapter three of Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross, which...

It pays to know the history of occult science in order to see that the latest science-and-religion dialogue will likely produce an occult theory. After all, occultism stands at the intersection of science and religion, being naturalistic without being materialistic. Theologians don’t always know the occult implication of their projects.

Like Mary, we have to let go of that Christ, whom we have imagined, and encounter Christ in his own reality.

The most wonderful thing about Julian, as a mystic, theological friend, and spiritual companion, is that she does more than just tell us about God. She actually shares with us her own incomplete, decades-long process of coming to terms with her experience of a God of love who is actually at work, in all things, in each moment.

If you and I cannot recognize that we are a “damn mess,” then I’m not sure what Christianity can offer.

The Rev. James Krueger is founder of Mons Nubifer Sanctus, a center for studying contemplative Christian life.