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Works by Christine Valters Paintner
Practicing Resurrection: Love and Peace as Holy Direction
Christine Valters Paintner | May 01, 2016
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Practicing Resurrection: Wandering for the Love of God
Christine Valters Paintner | April 17, 2016
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Practicing Resurrection: Seeing a World of Abundance
Christine Valters Paintner | April 10, 2016
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A Different Kind of Fast: Part Seven - Embrace Mystery
Christine Valters Paintner | March 20, 2016
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A Different Kind of Fast: Part Six - Embrace Organic...
Christine Valters Paintner | March 13, 2016
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A Different Kind of Fast: Part Five - Embrace Attention
Christine Valters Paintner | March 06, 2016
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A Different Kind of Fast: Part Four - Embrace Slowness
Christine Valters Paintner | February 28, 2016
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A Different Kind of Fast: Part Three - Embrace Trust
Christine Valters Paintner | February 21, 2016
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A Different Kind of Fast: Part Two - Embrace Vulnerability
Christine Valters Paintner | February 14, 2016
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Valentine's Invitation: Become "Body-Words of Love"
Christine Valters Paintner | February 12, 2016
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Feast of St. Gobnait: Go Seek the Place of Your...
Christine Valters Paintner | February 11, 2016
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A Different Kind of Fast: A Seven-Part Series for Lent
Christine Valters Paintner | February 07, 2016
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Hildegard of Bingen and God's Greening Power
Christine Valters Paintner | September 11, 2015
What if your fundamental commitment was to only offer your body and soul that which is......
The Practice of the Holy Pause
Christine Valters Paintner | June 17, 2015
When we pause between activities or moments in our day, we open ourselves to the......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: The Gift of Holy Surprise
Christine Valters Paintner | May 20, 2015
If, when Pentecost arrives, you do not find yourself perplexed or amazed, consider......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: The Journey Home
Christine Valters Paintner | May 13, 2015
If entered into mindfully and with a whole heart, each encounter on the road has the......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: Love as a Holy Direction
Christine Valters Paintner | May 07, 2015
In times when feeling disconnection and isolation is easier than ever, love calls us to......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: Finding Fruitfulness in the...
Christine Valters Paintner | April 30, 2015
Resurrection calls us to experience the full weight and lightness of our physical being,......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: Wandering for the Love of God
Christine Valters Paintner | April 24, 2015
What would it mean to wander and allow yourself to feel the vulnerability of being a bit......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: Seeing the World Anew
Christine Valters Paintner | April 17, 2015
We walk by a thousand ordinary revelations every day in our busyness and preoccupation.......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: The Holy Call of Doubt
Christine Valters Paintner | April 09, 2015
Sometimes resurrection feels very far away and we cry out for some sort of proof that......
Pilgrimage of Resurrection: A Creative Journey through...
Christine Valters Paintner | April 03, 2015
The call of Easter is this simple invitation: to step forth across the threshold, to......
Letting Go During Lent: Seeing Death as our Friend
Christine Valters Paintner | February 17, 2015
This season I am being invited to fast from things like "ego-grasping" and noticing when......
Follow the Star: Spiritual Practices for the New Year
Christine Valters Paintner | January 05, 2015
As you cross this threshold into the New Year, what star beckons you in the night? How......
Welcoming Your Multitude: The Monastic Way and Inner...
Christine Valters Paintner | October 22, 2014
We are each a multitude of differing energies and personalities. A lot of our inner......
The Soul's Migration: Where Will You Fly?
Christine Valters Paintner | September 23, 2014
As autumn tilts us toward the season of growing darkness, consider this an invitation to......
The Great Wisdom of Autumn
Christine Valters Paintner | September 09, 2014
The great wisdom of autumn is in the falling. It calls us to imagine entering into the......
The Great Unraveling Toward Love
Christine Valters Paintner | August 26, 2014
Many of us live in fear of the cultural breakdown happening right before our eyes, and......
Read an Excerpt: Seeing with Eyes of the Heart
Christine Valters Paintner | June 01, 2013
"Part of the spiritual journey is learning how to see, not with our physical eyes, but......
Easter: Practicing Resurrection of the Body
Christine Valters Paintner | March 28, 2013
What does it mean for us to not just say we believe in a resurrected life, but to truly......
Embracing Mystery in the New Year: Ten Essential Practices
Christine Valters Paintner | January 02, 2013
Imagine if your New Year's wasn't about fixing or improving, but about deepening and......
Radical Hospitality and Holy Disruption
Christine Valters Paintner | September 30, 2012
What if everything that turns our preconceived ideas inside out is precisely where we......
Silence as the Union of Opposites
Christine Valters Paintner | September 12, 2012
In the silence, I remember that my life is not wholly good or bad here. The discomfort......
Ancestral Pilgrimage: Journeying to Places of Family...
Christine Valters Paintner | August 16, 2012
Consider making a pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of your own ancestors. Spend time......
Giving Up a Too-Small God
Christine Valters Paintner | May 01, 2012
How to let go of the God of whom you are certain and open yourself to the One who is......
Making Space for the Divine: The Gift of Silence
Christine Valters Paintner | March 27, 2012
Silence of the heart is a profound place of moving beyond ego, judgments, and dualistic......
Sacred Fasting
Christine Valters Paintner | March 12, 2012
Fasting can be about food - or it can be about giving up words or ideas that are no......
Sit in Your Cell: Desert Reflections for Lent
Christine Valters Paintner | February 28, 2012
How fasting from distraction this Lent can make you conscious of the ways you avoid......
Body-Words of Love
Christine Valters Paintner | February 13, 2012
This Valentine's write a love letter to your body, offering both gratitude and......
The Sacred Art of Living
Christine Valters Paintner | February 03, 2012
To be a spiritual person, you must show up to the inner silence and the inner noise......
Holy Birthing: Practices for the 12 Days of Christmas
Christine Valters Paintner | December 20, 2011
How is God being born in you? Some steps for making Christmas a season of retreat....
Ancient Wisdom for Today's Storms
Christine Valters Paintner | October 23, 2011
Stay awake and conscious in the face of life's storms. Breathe deeply and observe your......
Autumn: The Season of Paradox
Christine Valters Paintner | September 21, 2011
In the season of Autumn, we move toward our own ripening and let go of what no longer......
Cinema Divina: The Tree of Life
Christine Valters Paintner | September 06, 2011
What is the meaning behind the great losses of our daily lives? Where do they fit within......
Establishing a Creative, Contemplative Practice: A Book...
Christine Valters Paintner | August 15, 2011
Read the first chapter of "The Artist's Rule" and begin your creative journey....
Contemplation and Creativity: An Interview with Christine...
Christine Valters Paintner | August 14, 2011
Whether or not we live in a monastery or spend each day in an art studio, we can all......
The Holy Pause: Spiritual Practices for a Time-Obsessed...
Christine Valters Paintner | July 26, 2011
We don't need more hours in the day. We need to shift our relationship to those hours....
Savoring Summer's Sweet Slowness
Christine Valters Paintner | July 11, 2011
Summer's sweetness is "an invitation to respond," says poet Lynn Ungar. How are you......
The Call to Holy Surprise: Reflections on Pentecost
Christine Valters Paintner | June 07, 2011
The story of Pentecost asks us a question: How do I let my expectations and cynicism......
The Spiritual Practice of Being Uncomfortable
Christine Valters Paintner | May 24, 2011
So much of what passes for spirituality these days is about making us happy and having......
A Canine Horarium: Praying the Hours with My Dog
Christine Valters Paintner | May 10, 2011
In monastic tradition, praying the Hours is a fundamental part of moving through the day......
Holy Saturday: The Space Between
Christine Valters Paintner | April 18, 2011
Much of our lives rest in the space between loss and hope. Our lives are full of Holy......
Mid-Way through Lent: Beginning Again
Christine Valters Paintner | April 05, 2011
No matter how far I stray from my practice, there is always an invitation to begin......
Entering the Season of Blossoming
Christine Valters Paintner | March 15, 2011
"I believe the seasons have a great deal of spiritual wisdom to offer us if we make......
Ash Wednesday: Practice Truth-Telling
Christine Valters Paintner | March 01, 2011
This Lent, my practice will be truth-telling. I will inhabit my places of grief, the......
Stirring in the Belly: Listening for New Life
Christine Valters Paintner | January 26, 2011
The holidays of Candlemas and Imbolc are traditionally a time to look forward. What does......
Advent Practices: Considering Our Earthiness
Christine Valters Paintner | December 17, 2010
Let our preparation for Christmas be one of wonder and delight in the ways we can foster......
Advent Practices: Water's Wisdom
Christine Valters Paintner | December 08, 2010
We are called in this season to tend to the places in our own lives where we need to......
Advent Practices: Following the Fire
Christine Valters Paintner | December 01, 2010
Creation is crying out for us to release our worship of consumption and return the fire......
Advent Practices: Tending to Creation
Christine Valters Paintner | November 23, 2010
In this first week of Advent, how are you being called to awaken to a deeper sense of......
Does God Really Talk to Us?
Christine Valters Paintner | November 15, 2010
I don't ask if God is speaking. I ask if there can be any place void of God's sacred......
The Invitations of Autumn: Spiritual Practices for the...
Christine Valters Paintner | September 16, 2010
Change is always with us, but autumn brings us to a deeper awareness that we live in a......
Sacred Artist Interview: Matthew Whitney
Christine Valters Paintner | March 29, 2010
If we are made "in the image of God," then creating images ourselves can help us see......
The Exquisite Tenderness of Bodies
Christine Valters Paintner | January 06, 2010
We are invited to embrace the beauty of our entire human reality, the dying and the......
New Year, New Beginnings
Christine Valters Paintner | December 21, 2009
More people are taking the celebration of New Year's as a time for reflection on what......
Uncovering What Has Been Hidden
Christine Valters Paintner | November 30, 2009
We are invited to awaken to the sacred possibilities being birthed deep within us to......
Beauty and Spirituality
Christine Valters Paintner | October 22, 2009
When we see a beautiful work of art or a radiant sunset we are confronted with the......
Mandalas (Part 2)
Christine Valters Paintner | September 22, 2009
The ancient Christian mystics often used mandalas to describe their encounters with......
Mandalas
Christine Valters Paintner | July 28, 2009
Mandalas, or sacred circles, offer us a template for the interior journey to the heart......
Art and Spirit in the Church
Christine Valters Paintner | July 10, 2009
This week in our on-going series on the connection between art and spirituality,......
Pray with Music: Audio Divina
Christine Valters Paintner | January 01, 2000
For many of us, music is often a transcendent experience, lifting us above the worries......
Opening the Heart for Lent
Christine Valters Paintner | January 01, 2000
On Ash Wednesday we always hear the words of the prophet Joel: "Return to me with your......
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