Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

In a review of everything currently known about the topic, researchers recently developed a scientific model of how contemplative practices of various kinds may encourage better physical and ...

A contemplative movement of Christian Centering Prayer is quietly (almost secretly) reviving religious life and faith in society. Here in the land of “the spiritual, but not religious,” and growing ...

ContemplativeBeehive.com or 303-652-3659. Though first practiced by early Christian monks, modern-day Christians aim to integrate their forefathers` silent, contemplative prayer into their daily lives ...

(RNS) — Brittany Muller didn’t intend to invite Christianity back into her life when she began using tarot cards as part of her daily spiritual practice nearly a decade ago. As a teenager and a ...

It’s a quiet -- how could it be anything else? -- but growing trend. About 5,000 people are active in the Christian contemplative prayer movement in Southern California, with more than 80 groups ...

These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

Episode 2: Consenting to the invitation to transformation (16 min.) Centering prayer is a gift of grace, Keating says. "But to sit there waiting for it to drop from heaven is not the right approach to ...

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 ...

Recently, I heard Minna Zallman Proctor read from her new book of nonfiction short stories—“true stories,” she calls them. During the Q&A, someone asked her about the difference between teaching ...