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My takeaway from Center for Action and Contemplation “What Makes Contemplative Christianity Different?” session
Unbuntu – I am because your are. You are because I am 1 – Contemplative Christianity prioritize a compassionate way of life rooted in the deep experience of divine presence and love. 2 – Contemplative Christianity devotes itself to spiritual practice leading to inner transformation. 3 – Contemplative Christianity practices the better, engaging in spiritual…
Language Is a Cage — and Also a Door
Wittgenstein, Whorf, and the Limits of Human Knowing Language is a cage — and also a door. That may be one of the strange blessings and burdens of being human. We live by words. We name things, explain things, bless things, curse things, categorize things, defend things, and occasionally hide behind things. Words help us…
Liminal Space for Rent
We spend much of life in between—between certainty and clarity, endings and beginnings. What if those spaces are not empty, but sacred? Liminal space for rent.Inquire within. It sounds like a joke. But most of us are already living there. Between what wasand what is not yet. Between certaintyand clarity. Between the life we knewand…
The Machine Cannot Wonder
Why Descartes Still Shapes the AI Age The machine analyzes. The soul wonders. That may be one of the simplest ways to name the spiritual crisis of our age. Artificial intelligence did not appear from nowhere. It arrived as the child of a long philosophical inheritance. Long before we built machines that could imitate conversation,…
Birthday Prayer Alarms
Embrace a New Spiritual Practice: Birthday Prayer Alarms In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of daily life, often forgetting to take a moment to connect with our loved ones and our spiritual selves. But what if there was a simple, yet profound way to integrate these…
All That Is… Leans Toward God
There is a hidden movement inside creation. Not frantic.Not forced.Not loud. A leaning. The trees lean toward light.The oceans lean toward shore.The soul leans toward meaning.Love leans toward union.And every restless human heart, whether it knows it or not, leans toward God. Creation carries within it a kind of holy gravity. The Franciscan tradition has…
