The ministry of spiritual direction provides a container for the Holy in our lives to be heard. It is space to tend to our deepest longing, with another as witness and companion; brave space where we are invited to linger with our…
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One of the great gifts I have been given in my life is leading worship at a women’s jail. I feel the grief of not being there because of COVID-19, and this community is never far from my thoughts. They are always in my prayers.
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In the past weeks I have heard a variety of metaphors to describe these times. What’s your metaphor? I keep hearing the term twilight zone, and I agree. Twilight is an in-between place…
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In the language of faith, “it is the tears of Hagar, the Muslims, “point vierge” of the spirit, the center of our nothingness where, in apparent despair, one meets God—and is found completely…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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When I was a small child, I spent a lot of time walking by myself in the meadows behind my home. It was during...
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We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted life is not a hope…
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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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At this time of year, as Stillpoint’s fiscal year closes, we ask you to consider making a donation to help us continue the good work of forming and supporting spiritual directors and encouraging contemplative life.
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