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July 2015

July 08, 2015
Last week I shared six principles that guide me in my understanding of what Christian...
July 06, 2015
A reader of my blog wrote the following message to me: I have been meditating...
July 01, 2015
A couple of years ago Rob Bell wrote a book with the title What We...

June 2015

June 24, 2015
Recently I had the opportunity to interview author and contemplative artist Christine Valters Paintner of...
June 17, 2015
In his sermon On Conversion, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux quotes Acts 26:24, only he paraphrases it...
June 12, 2015
One of my favorite verses in the Bible is I John 3:2. Here is a lectio divina meditation...
June 10, 2015
I bet if I took a poll, almost everyone who reads my blog would agree...
June 05, 2015
Christine Valters Painter is one of the most creative and visionary of spiritual directors with...
June 03, 2015
Does language always limit the way we talk about, think about, or even pray to, God?...

May 2015

May 27, 2015
First a disclaimer about my headline. I'm answering this question (What do contemplatives want?) based on the...
May 20, 2015
In the first chapter of The Acts of the Apostles, Jesus gives his disciples their...
May 19, 2015
Today would have been my daughter Rhiannon's 30th birthday. We're calling it her "first birthday...
May 15, 2015
Like so many folks in the blogosphere, I was fascinated by the story of Leah...
May 13, 2015
Here's a little video I filmed last month at the Gulf Coast. It's only about 45...
May 12, 2015
What do Brian McLaren, Fr. Daniel Horan OFM, Fr. Michael Casey OCSO, Br. Patrick Hart...
May 06, 2015
In recent months I have become very interested in the topic of leadership. Which might...

April 2015

April 29, 2015
Please fill out my reader's survey — and help me to make this a better blog. I'm asking...
April 29, 2015
"We need to deepen our own personal prayer lives." — The Most Reverend Wilton D....
April 24, 2015
"For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3)....
April 22, 2015
O Divine Beloved, you are the source of life and the fountain of all goodness....
April 17, 2015
A reader named Kevin wrote the following comment to me on Facebook, in response to...
April 15, 2015
A reader named Monika wrote the following comment and left it on one of my...
April 10, 2015
In the introduction to her book Writing the Icon of the Heart, Maggie Ross makes...
April 08, 2015
I simply love this story of two desert fathers, which Thomas Merton recounts in his...
April 02, 2015
Bloggers on Patheos have been asked to reflect on the question "What Good is Religion?"...
April 01, 2015
If you are engaged in a serious and sustained practice of silent prayer and contemplative...

March 2015

March 28, 2015
In my travels I hear a lot from people who get discouraged regarding silent prayer. Some...
March 25, 2015
Sometimes I get asked "Where is contemplation in the Bible?" One obvious answer to this...
March 23, 2015
When I met the Anglican writer Kenneth Leech, who is one of my heroes, he...
March 19, 2015
One of my favorite contemplative authors from the early twentieth century — Evelyn Underhill —...
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