I serve as pastor for a medium-sized congregation that worships in a gorgeous, soaring mid-century sanctuary with a cream brick interior and tall, fluted windows. I call it a neighborhood cathedral.

Revered by the leaders of the civil rights movement for his mysticism, not his activism, and for his pastoral presence, not his political strategy, theologian Howard Thurman is to many people a ...

A contemplative movement of Christian Centering Prayer is quietly (almost secretly) reviving religious life and faith in society. Here in the land of “the spiritual, but not religious,” and growing ...

Contemplation is so vital to the Christian way of life, however, that we have to try to explain it in some way. And so, in this effort to give some expression to contemplation, even the Catechism of ...

Keating wrote more than 30 books in his life, many available at Explore Booksellers in Aspen. When he died a year ago, at age 95, Father Thomas Keating was remembered around the world as a trailblazer ...

An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation is to be read slowly, not because its language is opaque or its concepts esoteric but because its message is disarmingly simple. The ...

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So there is a priority of contemplation over action in the sense that the beatific vision is eternal contemplation. And so all of our action that we are engaged in this life gets taken up in that ...

(RNS) — Brittany Muller didn’t intend to invite Christianity back into her life when she began using tarot cards as part of her daily spiritual practice nearly a decade ago. As a teenager and a ...