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 ...

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 ...

The musician and drag queen is an exvangelical who came to see that holding on to a theology of self-loathing was just too dangerous. The US government is deploying Norman Rockwell’s paintings of ...

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?

Forty years of studying contemplation has led Fr. Keating to this conclusion: "All of Christianity and especially the institutional aspects and structures of it need to be regularly renewed to ensure ...

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 ...