Articles on Prayer
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Ready to Keep Listening
When my former Senior Rector suggested I sign up for Shalem’s Crossing the Threshold: Contemplative Foundations for Emerging Leaders program, I don’t think he quite knew what this course would come to mean to me and how it would intersect in such beautiful ways in my life. I certainly didn’t. However, I can say without…
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Holy Whisper
It was an exciting day! I woke up that morning in Avila, Spain, knowing we were going to tread some hallowed ground. Our group of pilgrims headed out the door and onto the ancient cobblestone streets of this walled city. The same streets that Teresa of Avila walked as a child, a young woman, and…
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Spiritual Guidance as Love Activism
In the Northern Hemisphere where I live, we’ve passed the autumnal equinox and are entering one of my favorite seasons – fall. As the days become shorter and the nights lengthen, we’re invited to lean back and settle into this fecund, pregnant, obscure season heading towards winter. During fall our Jewish brothers and sisters celebrate…
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Prayers for Hope & Healing During an Election Year
“To reinvent your country you need a great deal of hope.”-Jurgen Moltmann Over the past year or so that I have been sharing the hosting of Shalem’s Prayers for Hope and Healing, I often reflect on the audacity of it all. A gathering of Shalem-inspired folk populating the assembled squares of a Zoom screen; thirty…