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Jared Ingle
Texts Helping Me Thrive
We all want to thrive. Everyone wants to experience the best. We all want to experience “the good life.” However, there are times in life when we face what seems like insurmountable odds. There are times when we face suffering. It is in those times when we might discover that Jesus is...
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Formation Matters
Upping Your Game at Mass And Living the Offertory
Living the offertory of the Mass as a layperson can be challenging. Do you ever feel that you are just “watching” the Mass
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Strategic Monk
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 practice taking a deep breath. We have struggled through challenging months trying to sustain ourselves long enough to survive. Some of us were reaching toward the beginning of spring, or a new beginning. We...
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Strategic Monk
Taking a Deep Breath, and Another: Finding Time to Breathe
Listening to Our Own Rhythms: When Will We Pause to Listen?
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Practicing Community: How Do We Connect?
A Matter of Life and Death: Which Are We Choosing?
Discerning the Next Steps on Our Path
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Carl McColman
Memento Mori: The Contemplation of Death and the Wonder of Life
Even Your Breath Can Be Your "Sacred Word"
Come to the Eternal Heart Publication Day Celebration — June 29, 2021!
Companionship as a Key to the Spiritual Life: Therese Schroeder-Sheker Reflects on "Eternal Heart"
Union, Intimacy, and Love: the Dynamics of Christian Mysticism
Take This One-Question Survey: Your Favorite Way(s) to Explore Contemplative Spirituality
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Alignment
What Is Your Prayer for Peace?
A Simple Way to Celebrate World Interfaith Harmony Week
Ordinary Rituals That Create Sacred Space
Don't Know How to Pray? Here's How.
Can a Muslim and a Jew Pray Together?
Calendar of Light 2023
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Human Encounter
We’re All Snowflakes, and That’s OK
7 Surprises Inside the Vatican’s Secret Archives
Are You Worshipping God or Pinhead?
Alex Jones and the Theology of Bad Faith
5 Lessons Queen Elizabeth’s Death Has Taught Us
The Spirituality of Doomscrolling
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Voices in the Stillness
Sitting Bull's Prophetic Dreams
Practices From the Inside Out: Taking Steps Toward Awakening
Practices From the Inside Out: Taking Steps Toward Awakening
Isolation in Community
Tolerating Distraction
Could Consciousness All Come Down to the Way Things Vibrate?
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Holyscapes
Cracks in Stony Soil
Memento Mori
Low Tide
Gratitude in Heavy Times
The Way of Jesus, Jesus as Way
A Guide Book to America’s Sacred Groves: A Review of America’s Holy Ground
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Ordinary Mystic
How to Be a Busy Parent and Pray Without Ceasing (Guest Post by Dani Kreutter)
James Baldwin: Prophet of Love
On Christianity, God as Creativity, and the Arts
Joy and Justice Belong Together
Beyond Light Supremacy: Let There be Light *and* Darkness
St. Francis and Loving Animals from "Other" to "Brother"
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Mindful Christianity Today
What is Your Hurry?
There is a Battle for Your Mind
What Should I Do?
The Desire of the Ages
Just Come Home
In the Emergency Room of Life
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Lorraine Kisly
A FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH THE LORD'S PRAYER
THE OPIATE OF UNBELIEF
BECOMING A DISCIPLE
GATHERED TOGETHER
PRAYING AS IF
The Awaiting Lord
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A Glimpse of Awakening by Loch Kelly
Chronic Pain Relief with Loch’s Effortless Mindfulness Method
Changing the Channel of Your Mind
What Is non-self Self?
Returning Emotions to Their Natural State
A Simple Case of Mistaken Identity
Awake Awareness Cannot Be Developed
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You as the Sculptor of Reality
Following the Example of Ebenezer Scrooge
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What Christians Can Learn from Philo on Faith... or Trust?
Can You Find God In Your Bookstore (Part IV)
Jewish Identity & the Law: Jason Staples on Romans 2 & 10
Is this the Pinnacle of the Trail?
The Spiritual Practice of Intention
Praying with our Desires
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Jesus Wept. And So Can You.
Prayer, Wigglesworth's Knees and Forgiveness. A Devotion.
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How Animals Teach Us to Love
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Jesus Is the Bread of Life: The First "I Am"
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Taking a Deep Breath, and Another: Finding Time to Breathe
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Four Questions to Build a Rule of Life
Shadow Work: The Spiritual Practice of You
A Day in the Life
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History and Religion
The Right to Bear Arms vs God
Can the Titanic and Its Musicians Teach Us a Lesson?
Paul and the Resurrection of Israel Part 3: The Conclusion
Living in Hope of Renewal: On Arendt and Easter Season
Why Humans Do Ritual: Finding Meaning in Everyday Practice
From Darkness to Light. A Resurrection Pondering.
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Practicing Community: How Do We Connect?
Finding Community Amid Shared Fragility
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Jesus is the Voice of God
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A Creedal Faith After Deconstruction
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The Prophet Taylor Swift
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Religious Art
What Makes Us Human: On AI and the Human Animal
Do You Recognize God In Your Bookstore? (Part II)
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Healer of My Soul: Insights and Hope to Overcome Sin
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Where Do We Look For God?
Is Enjoying Life a Spiritual Practice?
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There Can Only Be One
Centering Prayer Online
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