Sources of Wisdom: An Online Retreat
With Laurence Freeman OSB As our world is being turned upside down, this time of self-isolating and social distance that we are experiencing could be seen as a kind of extended period of retreat: a voluntary restriction which reminds us of the limited control we have in reality – at any time – over the […]
Dr Barry White and Contemplative Medicine
Dr Barry White contributed to the 2018 John Main Seminar in Belgium, speaking on “A contemplative practice to transform healthcare”. It was recognised as one of the most riveting and acclaimed talks at that seminar. What he says here on a contemplative insight into the nature of medicine and health can help us approach the global […]
A Pandemic Priesthood
By Stuart Higginbotham This morning, forty-six days after I closed our campus and we moved our shared ministries to our homes and an online platform, we gathered for our weekly Sunday service of Morning Prayer via Zoom. (As an update, we really are getting better at logging in and aiming the camera at our actual […]
Meditation: A Path to Wellbeing and More
In these talks, Jim Green, author of Giving Up Without Giving Up: Meditation and Depression, explores the meaning of being and asks if perhaps, now we have the opportunity to practice as simply and skillfully as we can, discovering together (while apart) the always new life within and between us that is the real wellbeing. Jim […]
Staying at Home without going Stir-Crazy
Meditation in a Time of Lockdown by Stefan Reynolds A week into lockdown in Croatia and I can’t go home to Ireland, not that I’d want to, my wife is here and the weather in Croatia is pleasant and coronavirus fears have frightened the tourists away. I feel quite at home. But I am quite […]
Stay Home, Stay Here
by Andrew Mcalister As coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, millions and millions of us are being asked to stay at home. In an attempt to stop the spread of this virus, we are avoiding public spaces and all non-essential activity. For many there is a new balance to contend with, one of working […]