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What To Do With 192 Hours (Give or Take) of Silence aka What Is a Silent Retreat Like?

As a self-professed, recovering people addict and extreme extrovert, if you had told me I would ever register for a silent retreat for...

Spiritual EMDR?

I led a group this week where we were talking about the practices of gratitude and lament. As we listened to Psalm 22 being read, we...

Don’t Pooh-Pooh My Spiritual Discipline of (English) Haiku

*Originally posted on a Fuller Theological Seminary blog on August 24, 2017 I stumbled upon a new spiritual discipline this week. I was...

Learning to Listen: Examen Prayer

As I mentioned previously, the Examen Prayer (or as St. Ignatius called it, the Examination of Conscience) is one of two key spiritual...

Learning to Listen: Lectio Divina

I have never been a disciplined person; I thrive on spontaneity and surprises. This means, as a lifelong church attender and Christian, I...