• Craig Hammond

    • Craig currently resides in Western Massachusetts in the city of Holyoke. He has been a member of The Episcopal Church for the past ten years where he serves as a commissioned lay evangelist for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts. His core ministry is working with a wonderful team of folks to coordinate and facilitate a diocesan-sponsored ministry called Loving the Questions that focuses on contemplation and discernment; the ministry will begin its tenth year in 2023-24. The Loving the Questions ministry is an ever-evolving community that gathers over a period of seven months each year to provide hands-on experience that explores and practices spiritual direction in small groups.

Five Gathered: A Reflection on Group Spiritual Direction

I had the bountiful blessing of making four very close friends this past week. It was not your typical friendship. Five individuals gathered together in faith, in silence, in prayer, and in profound empathy. The gathering was not by chance. No, something else, rather someone else, was at work — One I will call the […]

April 04, 2024 by Craig Hammond 4 Comments

Five Gathered

Reflection on the Experience of a Group Spiritual Direction Workshop at Shalem Institute. I had the bountiful blessing of making four very close friends at the Group Spiritual Direction workshop on Zoom last June. It was not your typical friendship. Five individuals gathered together in faith, in silence, in prayer, and in profound empathy. The […]

August 08, 2021 by Craig Hammond 1 Comment