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Today's post is by guest contributor Dr. Marie Marquardt, who is a novelist (Dream Things...

One of the most beautiful passages in the New Testament — perhaps even one of...

“Follow your heart.” It’s a classic phrase of advice and encouragement, for we know that...

Today’s post is by a guest author, Dr. David Rensberger, author of Johannine Faith and Liberating...

"What is your greatest hope for this book?" This question came to me the other...

One of the most popular verses in the Bible is Psalm 46:10: “Be still and...

Stuart Higginbotham tells how being the target of protests by Westboro Baptist Church during last...

So often, it seems to me, that people who are drawn to the Christian tradition...

What are the characteristics of a mystic? I know two elderly monks at the local...

One of the scariest moments for me, as an author, is when my editor and...

On his live album Precious Friend, Arlo Guthrie cracked a joke: “You can’t have a...

This month marks nine years since The Big Book of Christian Mysticism was published. Hard to believe it's been that...

A note from Carl: It was forty years ago this summer — the summer of...

Nothing says "Catholic" quite as much as a rosary. But anyone — Catholic or Orthodox,...

Today’s post is by a guest contributor: Brother Mark Dohle, OCSO, who serves as the Guestmaster...

Get The Big Book of Christian Mysticism ebook version for your favorite ebook reader for...

Today's Guest Post is by Sr. Julia Walsh, FSPA. Sr. Julia is a Franciscan Sister of...

My children, I am again in the pain of childbirth, until Christ is formed in...

In my forthcoming book Unteachable Lessons, I tell how I spent a period of time estranged...

A few months ago I wrote about smartphone apps that are designed to support a...

I'm preparing for a retreat I'll be leading in Scotland next month, and so I'm...

Recently I led a Celtic spirituality retreat through the Copper Beech Institute in Connecticut. During...

We know the first woman who wrote a book in the English language (at least,...

A reader named Dave recently sent this question to me: Hi Carl, could you please...

Today's post is written by Lerita Coleman Brown, PhD, author of When the Heart Speaks, Listen:...

One of the most attractive, although challenging, qualities of the Cistercian charism is simplicity. It's...

In response to a post I wrote last year — "What to Do When Prayer...

What is the future of humanity? Will we ever evolve beyond our current identity of homo...

Since I have written about witchcraft and neopaganism — both books and posts on this...

Note from Carl: Today's guest post is by Phileena Heuertz, and is an excerpt from...