Meditation on an Image
By Len Freeman
crosses on crosses on
crosses on crosses
on crosses on crosses to
preternal forces
to say that it mattered and
mattered and matters
to maker and whittler
and gluer and hanger
who wandere... Read More...
Summer Camp as Catechetical Lectio Divina
By Joseph Roberts
Lectio divina, the ancient practice of reading and meditating on Scripture, has seen a huge resurgence as of late. You can now even download apps that are meant to help you along the path o... Read More...
Listening with the Heart
By Marcia Hotchkiss
I have always been a reader. Going to the public library weekly was an activity that I treasured as a child. When my faith became more real to me in high school, I participated in Bible study to learn more about God, as well as the peopl... Read More...
Seeds of Thanksgiving
By Jonathan Turtle
A decade ago now as a seminarian finding his way back into the Anglicanism of his childhood I, along with my wife, landed in a small parish around the corner from where we lived in Toronto... Read More...
My Pandemic Reading List: Recommendations from a Contemplative
By Marcia Hotchkiss
After COVID-19 changed our world last spring, I initially thought not much would change in my life, either. As a contemplative, I believed that I practiced the disciplines of slowing, sti... Read More...
The Second Commandment: Imagination and Contemplation
Part of a series on the Ten Commandments.
By Mac Stewart
One of my favorite TV shows as a little kid was Reading Rainbow. In a book, the theme song said, you can go twice as high; you can be a king and live in castles and battle dragons; you can fly int... Read More...
A Spiritual Tool for Social Distancing
By Mother Miriam, CSM
In a large group of people, it is easy to get lost, think your own thoughts, find like-minded thinkers or feelers, and generally plow your own furrow or hitch your wagon to someone else... Read More...
God, Sexuality, & Knots: Sarah Coakley’s théologie totale (a personal appropriation)
Over the course of this extended discussion, did any of us change our mind on any of the issues? Even though we did see how gender politics, trinitarian theology, and our own experience of desire are all connected in a thorny knot, at the end of the day, no, we did not, any of us, change our mind on the issues at hand.