Washington, D.C. — Luminaries and practitioners in the contemplative tradition will circle the world in prayer continuously for 40 hours on October 13-15, 2013. The live and virtual vigil is the ...

Unless Christians rediscover the "bigger heart" and "bigger mind" of the mystical and contemplative tradition, the church will be unable to make positive change in the world — or reform itself, said ...

, a Catholic priest who's written dozens of books about spiritual life, will talk about "Restoring Sacred Balance: The Convergence of Contemplative Traditions and Social Action" at 's annual Collins ...

But for centuries, Rohr says, Christians lost touch with this truth as contemplative practices — ways to gain inner experience of God — became less and less common. In the Catholic Church, some ...

WASHINGTON — What is the Spirit doing now? This question frames the “New Contemplative Leaders Exchange,” a gathering of 19 young contemplative leaders with Thomas Keating, Tilden Edwards, Richard ...

Maybe 45 years ago I read a book that introduced me to the importance of contemplative prayer and mysticism. It was Thomas Merton’s autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. In a striking passage, the ...