Nurtured by Margaret Haines’ founding vision for The Contemplative Society, this initiative used a parish setting as a ...

Early in his 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor, John Paul II points to a fundamental contradiction in modern anthropology. On the one hand, the dominant tradition of Western, liberal-secular thought ...

Princeton Theological Seminary is pleased to announce the launch of the Center for Contemplative Leadership. Founded and directed by Bo Karen Lee, associate professor of spiritual theology and ...

Contemplative spirituality and practices of silence can not only help you re-center amidst stress like many are facing due to COVID-19, but they also help you see your deep convictions, motivations, ...

I serve as pastor for a medium-sized congregation that worships in a gorgeous, soaring mid-century sanctuary with a cream brick interior and tall, fluted windows. I call it a neighborhood cathedral.

Presenter: Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I., president, Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas, and author of many popular spirituality books, including The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian ...

Revered by the leaders of the civil rights movement for his mysticism, not his activism, and for his pastoral presence, not his political strategy, theologian Howard Thurman is to many people a ...

The oil-on-canvas painting, done around 1655 by Dutch artist Jan Vermeer, is of a reflective Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, sitting mesmerized while listening to the words of Jesus. The scene ...

Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho") fresco from Pompeii ca. 55-70 CE. Source: Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples/Public Domain In his journal of 1836, the great American poet, ...

Presenter: Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I., president, Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas, and author of many popular spirituality books, including The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian ...