Articles on Contemplation in Action

  • Mr. Rogers: Restoring the World to Wholeness One Neighbor at a Time

    Mr. Rogers: Restoring the World to Wholeness One Neighbor at a Time

    Today’s post is by Mary van Balen When my oldest child was three, friends with a son about the same age asked how I liked Sesame Street. I admitted that neither I nor my daughter had seen it. We rarely turned on the television, but after hearing other young parents extolling the show’s merits, I…

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  • May we not

    Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? ~John Wesley

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  • New lands

    One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~André Gide

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  • Coming Home

    Coming Home

    Today’s post is by Patience Robbins I have been pondering Home. Where is Home, what is Home? This led me back to the line in the Gospel of John:  “Make your home in me, as I make my home in you.” Ah yes, that is the deep knowing within me. The Divine Mystery, the Beloved,…

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  • Deep Diving

    Deep Diving

    Article by Joan Paddock Maxwell (June 2018 eNews) Over the years I’ve spent about two hundred hours scuba diving. One of the many fascinating parts of the scuba experience is the increasing quiet you encounter as you go further below the ocean’s surface. I used to love to swim down to one hundred feet and…

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  • Grounded in Love: Creative Leadership for Our Times

    Grounded in Love: Creative Leadership for Our Times

    Today’s post is by Margaret Benefiel Marches. Online petitions. Letters to the editor. “Am I doing any good?” I ask myself. “Am I making a difference? Is there another way?” In the face of injustice, wars, and humanity’s inhumanity to humanity, I long to be faithful to doing my part to heal the world. As…

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