Eugene Peterson calls believers to a life lived with wholeness, honesty, without contrivance—against the grain of much that’s currently driving the church in America It's hard to believe now, but ...

Washington, D.C., June 13, 2013 — The Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation announces the launch of new e-courses to bring Christian contemplative living into the digital age. The Online School of ...

I feel dread when my phone rings these days. This presents a bit of a problem, because I make my living by taking peoples’ calls. The same goes for e-mail. I’ve got more than a week’s worth piling up ...

Keating wrote more than 30 books in his life, many available at Explore Booksellers in Aspen. When he died a year ago, at age 95, Father Thomas Keating was remembered around the world as a trailblazer ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (RNS) — A growing number of millennials are finding that contemplative spirituality is a way to bridge the faith they grew up with and their yearning for deeper connections to God.

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?

Mysticism is a dirty word for some Christians. “They think of it as the bizarre,” said Bernard McGinn, a retired religion professor at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. “But that is an ...

Educated at Harvard and Yale in the liberal reformed traditions of Christianity as represented by Paul Tillich and H. Richard Niebuhr, King notes that his formal education familiarized him neither ...