Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...
In a review of everything currently known about the topic, researchers recently developed a scientific model of how contemplative practices of various kinds may encourage better physical and ...
These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...
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 ...
Centering prayer is catching on among Protestants in South Korea. "Nearly all Protestant prayer revolves around seeking something from God" says Reverend Lee Min-jae, a Methodist pastor from Eunmyung ...
Washington, D.C., June 13, 2013 — The Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation announces the launch of new e-courses to bring Christian contemplative living into the digital age. The Online School of ...
For Jerome Kodell, the practice of silent prayer has enriched his life. Some call it contemplative prayer -- a way of seeking a deeper relationship with God through stillness and silence. As abbot of ...
For centuries, people have turned to prayer for comfort, guidance, healing, and connection with God. While prayer has long ...
Long ago, Daniel Berrigan told me a tragic story about being invited to speak to a packed church of cloistered nuns somewhere on the East Coast in 1965. They wanted him to read from his latest book of ...