Pandemic and the Contemplative Mother
N. Ammon Smith seeks to learn from Mary’s response to unprecedented change.
N. Ammon Smith seeks to learn from Mary’s response to unprecedented change.
Sarah Coakley’s important book recommends prayer as a way to an incorporative model of the Trinity.
Chris Heuertz discusses how contemplative practices can help sustain activism, lead to a more holistic health, and create unlikely communities.
John Chapman once advised followers to “pray as you can, and do not try to pray as you can’t,” as a way of encouraging both freedom from the way others say we should pray as well as direction from someone who lives well a life of prayer.
This essay explores the relationships between poetry, contemplation, and love in Thomas Merton’s writing and proposes potential applications of this theopoetic style of contemplation to our daily lives and methods of pastoral care.