Do the world’s religions and contemplative traditions send people to the same place – compassion, bliss, awe, a sense of God, awareness, or the universe? We conducted a study that asked a smaller ...

Teachers of meditation sometimes counsel beginners to empty their minds by letting their thoughts rise up and float by like clouds in the sky. In the beginning of such a meditation, the many and ...

If you’ve never been on a pilgrimage or contemplative retreat, now is your chance. From Sept. 23-27, Franciscan Spiritual Connections will host a contemplative retreat, Earth and Soul: Reweaving ...

Source: Phileena Heuertz, used with permission. Photo credit: Nikole Lim Contemplative spirituality and practices of silence can not only help you re-center amidst stress like many are facing due to ...

“So that contemplation can be whole, it must consist of both inward solitude and reflection, and an outward response to the situations in which we find ourselves present and awake." In this very first ...

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 ...

With this ambitious study, filmmaker Hall (coauthor, Notes on Silence) attempts to disentangle spiritual contemplation from the “grasp of Western Christian expression” and reframe it through a queer ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — What is the Spirit doing now? This question frames the “New Contemplative Leaders Exchange,” a gathering of 19 young contemplative leaders with Thomas Keating, Tilden Edwards, Richard ...

Our country is reeling once again because of a week of senseless violence. And once again those who peddle differing perspectives on possible solutions have gone to their corners and are promoting ...