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 ...

The Rev. Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and pioneer in the worldwide Christian contemplative prayer movement, died Thursday at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, where he had once been ...

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?

Vaughan and Suzanne Counts set aside 20 minutes every morning and 20 minutes every evening to be silent and know God. In those periods of stillness and silence, they quiet their minds while slowly ...

St. John the Evangelist, 2640 Park Drive: Workshop on What is Contemplative Prayer? from 9 a.m. to noon July 22. The Rev. Jeremy Froyen and Timothy and Karen Pedigo will lead the workshop, which will ...

Next weekend, St. James Episcopal Church, 119 N. Duke St., will host a two-day Contemplative Revolution weekend. If the title sounds oxymoronoic — contemplation and revolution would seem to be ...

Although nominally a non-denominational Christian church, the Aspen Chapel echoed last Sunday morning with the sounds of some decidedly non-Christian chanting. “Innal insana lafi khusr illal ladhina ...

In full transparency, contemplation cannot be fully explained by human words or concepts since contemplation literally touches the face of God and so shares in his inner mystery. Contemplation is so ...

Hallow is a Catholic prayer and meditation app that is linking technology and faith — and allowing users to personalize their prayer experience. It's also changing lives. The word hallow means "to ...

The Rev. Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk who helped pioneer the Christian contemplative prayer movement, once wrote that the aim of centering prayer is communing with God as “two friends sitting in ...