Stories and Reflections
from the Stillpoint Community

Good spiritual teaching or spiritual companionship of any kind, Newell reminded us, is not about dispensing information as if we have superior knowledge, but it is…

I went to the Women’s March again this year. I don’t know whether marches make change in the world, but I know they help sustain and encourage me. I come out of my house, where…

This December I was given a great gift. It was a spiritual practice offered by a trusted writer of the Contemplative Life, Peter Traben Haas. In his book…

Nearly 40 years ago, a group of people from different spiritual traditions came together to find a way to support people in listening deeply to their own experience of God.

When I was a small child, I spent a lot of time walking by myself in the meadows behind my home. It was during...

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted life is not a hope…

This icon by 15th C Russian iconographer Andre Rublev is the most helpful text I have ever read about the nature of God. His image calls on the story…

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Sometimes my heart does not know how to pray. It is one of the most difficult places I live. But it happens sometimes. It is an honest place, that land where all…

On January 17, the world lost one of the greatest poets and human beings of our time. More than almost any other poet of the 20th and 21st centuries, Mary Oliver wrote poems that…