• Carrie Newcomer

    • Carrie Newcomer is a performer, recording artist, and educator, described as a “prairie mystic” by the The Boston Globe. She has 17 nationally released albums, including The Point of Arrival, The Beautiful Not Yet, A Permeable Life,and Everything is Everywhere, and has also released two companion books of poetry and essays, A Permeable Life: Poems and Essays and The Beautiful Not Yet: Poems, Essays, & Lyrics.

Learning To Sit With Not Knowing

Today’s Special Video Blog is by Carrie Newcomer, the recipient of Shalem’s 2019 Contemplative Voices Award on October 27! “Learning To Sit With Not Knowing” from “The Point of Arrival”   “Abide” by Carrie Newcomer and Parker Palmer from “A Permeable Life”   “Room At The Table” from “A Permeable Life”

October 10, 2019 by Carrie Newcomer

Note to Self When Walking (Because I Forget)

Today’s blog is by Carrie Newcomer, recipient of Shalem’s 2019 Contemplative Voices Award When walking in the woods, Or on a path, Or down the street, In a store, Or just upstairs, When you are intent on going, Wherever it is you are going, Stop. Stand still. Notice how the mind can chatter, Like purple […]

September 09, 2019 by Carrie Newcomer

Miracle, Light and Considerable Magic

Article by by Carrie Newcomer – August 2019 eNews “Why does this generation ask for a miraculous sign?” (Mark 8:12) Albert Einstein said, “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” I know when the world feels anything […]

July 07, 2019 by Carrie Newcomer 1 Comment