Nurtured by Margaret Haines’ founding vision for The Contemplative Society, this initiative used a parish setting as a ...

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 ...

If you read this column regularly, you may recall my two previous articles about prayer. The first was about establishing the habit of daily prayer, and the second focused on ...

St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history?

What would it mean to queer contemplation? To disentangle contemplative spirituality from heteronormativity, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity, and instead engage with openness, curiosity, and a little ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...

We live in cultures of anger and blame, of sloganeering and comparisons with others. The result? Highly habituated reactive mental habits leading to fragmented identities and the sense that union with ...

When the Church approaches contemplative prayer, she is led to give multiple and different definitions in her attempt to explain what it is. The multiple definitions are needed since no one definition ...

“To use tarot in a contemplative way is to marry prayer with art,” contends Blessed Vigil blogger Muller in her delightfully unusual debut. She posits that tarot cards can be used as a “tool to ...

Betty Cole leads an interfaith meditation practice at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. It’s in this Gothic Revival church in Pasadena, California, that Betty ...

He lived in a time much like our chaotic age. A time of social unrest, high inflation, rural decay, panic, rioting, and a crumbling political order. (Sounds familiar, right?) In the late 6th century, ...