About Karl Stevens

https://kpbstevens.com/

Karl Stevens is an Episcopal Priest and an artist and writer. As a priest he has served as a college chaplain, a parish priest, a diocesan missioner, and a director of children and youth formation. As a spiritual director he has worked privately with directees and led groups of other directors in organizing retreats and special events. As an artist, he co-curated the EASE Gallery, created a series of paintings on the Stations of the Cross that have been used by area churches, and displays work and writings on kpbstevens.com. In addition to all of this, he is the co-host of the Lost in the Wilderness podcast, along with Rabbi Daniel Bogard. He is married with one child and lives in Grandview Heights.

Author Archive

November 7, 2015 by Karl Stevens

What does it mean to be wise in today’s world? The night before, someone had asked me if I thought that life was primarily comedy or primarily tragedy. I said comedy, without really knowing why. Then, as sometimes happens in the most surprising way, I found myself sitting at our Ministerium lunch the very next day, listening as Rabbi Roger Klein supported my sense that […] What does it mean to be wise in today’s world?

October 29, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Considering the Lilies Students from the Edge House were singing as we hiked into Conkle’s Hollow. Sandstone cliffs rose up on either side, striated by the lapping waves of an ocean that disappeared millennia ago. Thin trees clung to them, and when the wind blew yellow leaves shook loose and scattered like the rain that was occasionally falling. […] Considering the Lilies

September 30, 2015 by Karl Stevens

How do we form pilgrim communities? When Greg Hitzhusen was a student at Yale Divinity School, he and a few others started an Outing Club, which took students out onto the campus for weekly meditations, and also took a spring break hiking trip every year. One day, while they were hiking in North Carolina, they came out onto Shining Rock at […] How do we form pilgrim communities?

September 29, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Twenty First Century Values by Nora Anderson I had the privilege of attending an event led by one of America’s most needed Catholic voices, Sister Simone Campbell of NETWORK Lobby, or “The Nuns on the Bus.” I had the opportunity to speak about community issues with fellow Catholics concerned with the willful ignorance of other Catholics in positions of […] Twenty First Century Values

September 15, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Prayer for Graduate Students and Post Docs by Jared Talbot Dear Lord, please be with the graduate students and postdocs who are coming to campus this year; those sojourning on and those who are wrapping up. As they discover their passions in research and thought, help them to find balance and not be consumed by the work. Help them to sense the zest […] Prayer for Graduate Students and Post Docs

September 9, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Register for the “Consider the Lilies” Campus Ministry Retreat Is it possible to set aside anxiety in an anxious world, particularly during a time of life when the future looms large and every choice we make might effect that future for good or ill?  Much of our anxiety is merited, and we can hear Jesus’s call not to be anxious as too simplistic or, […] Register for the “Consider the Lilies” Campus Ministry Retreat

September 2, 2015 by Karl Stevens

My Summer in the Body That first night in Traverse City, having driven all day to get there, I rode seven miles on my bike, through woods that bordered a broad inlet, to a yoga studio in an old office park. The studio itself was on the second floor of an a-frame building, and we laid out our mats under […] My Summer in the Body

August 20, 2015 by Karl Stevens

The Tree of Contemplative Practices I shared this wonderful illustration from The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society with the Confluence Volunteers when I was introducing them to the idea of spiritual direction.  The illustration is by Carrie Bergman.  The only thing it leaves out, as far as I can see, is practices of self-knowledge such as the Ignatian Examinem and one-on-one meetings […] The Tree of Contemplative Practices

August 3, 2015 by Karl Stevens

Who will I love, and how will I love them well? This year, Praxis Communities are thinking and writing about the question “How do we live in relationship?”  Different individuals and communities will read this question in different ways, and nuance it to fit their own questions and understandings.  I’m most interested in romantic relationships, and so my version of the question is “Who will I love, […] Who will I love, and how will I love them well?

July 16, 2015 by Karl Stevens

The Circle: Exploring the Art of Storytelling This summer, Saint Matthew’s, Westerville, has been inviting everyone between ages 18 and 180 to unplug from digital media and connect to the human experience through the art of storytelling. Working with the Storytellers of Central Ohio, they welcome professionals, a novices, and a seekers to come and spend an evening with great spoken stories and discover […] The Circle: Exploring the Art of Storytelling
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