"Centering prayer is not something new," Keating tells interviewer Tom Fox. "It is simply an effort to update the apophatic contemplative tradition coming down from Gregory of Nyssa and The Cloud [of ...

Long ago, Daniel Berrigan told me a tragic story about being invited to speak to a packed church of cloistered nuns somewhere on the East Coast in 1965. They wanted him to read from his latest book of ...

The life of prayer is a process that has great advances and setbacks. There is no monotony when it comes to spending time with God. For those who commit themselves to pray, there is a daily adventure ...

Contemplative prayer is a communion in which the Holy Trinity conforms man, the image of God, ‘to his likeness.’” Yes, the spiritual tradition is still left bouncing and grasping at every possible ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...

A contemplative movement of Christian Centering Prayer is quietly (almost secretly) reviving religious life and faith in society. Here in the land of “the spiritual, but not religious,” and growing ...

Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

Centering prayer is catching on among Protestants in South Korea. "Nearly all Protestant prayer revolves around seeking something from God" says Reverend Lee Min-jae, a Methodist pastor from Eunmyung ...