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June 7, 2016 by Jed Dearing

A Whisper of Something Else

By Anna Berger No one in the world knows you’re here, Atop this ridge with your rose-flushed face and the dirt smudges up and down your faintly aching legs, you are alone. But God is no one because God is the One and the world is God’s and there’s a whisper of something else in […]

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March 31, 2016 by Jed Dearing

Let’s Grow A Garden!

The Near East House, the newest Praxis intentional community, partnered in the Woodland Park neighborhood with St. Philip’s Columbus, is the proud recipient of a 2016 Young Adult United Thank Offering Grant to start a new community garden. The Woodland Park Community Garden purposes to serve the residents of the neighborhood, both by (1) being […]

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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 […]

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August 28, 2015 by Jane Gerdsen

Some Thoughts on Spiders

I’m surrounded by spiders. All summer it felt like everywhere I turned I saw spiders – they were in our house at camp – massive spiders scurrying in the corners and as I sat and wrote at the desk facing the fields, I saw spiders in the windows spinning enormous webs. I found spiders in […]

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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 […]

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January 13, 2014 by John Holliger

The Gifts of Winter

by John Holliger When we look upon the natural world in Winter we can easily conclude that a plant or tree is dead, when it is really dormant, and not dead in the least.  Much of nature has drawn her life giving fluids into her place of origin, beyond our sight, into the soil, beneath […]

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October 10, 2013 by John Holliger

When My Love of Trees Began

The persimmon and witch hazel trees were planted before I was born.  The persimmon tree was rarely known or joyfully eaten in our parts. The Witch hazel twisted back and around itself so much that I gave up following one branch as it bent back upon itself and through the loops of her siblings. By […]

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