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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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…
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Violence that takes innocent life, and while people are at prayer, is a growing wound in the human community. It is a devastating sign of the brokenness in our world. Our hearts are broken too, and we wonder what we are to do.
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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…
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I heard a story once told by Nancy Lopez, one of the most decorated women golfers in US history. She was describing a time in her career when she became so burned out from the professional circuit, she abruptly dropped out of all scheduled tournaments, admitting…
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Early in the second century BCE, when the Jewish people went to rededicate their temple after it had been plundered and desecrated by pagan oppressors, the principle act was…
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"I just learned that my friend, teacher, and mentor, Father Thomas Keating has died. I was with him months ago and asked him how he was preparing to die.
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