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Beyond Centering Prayer
You’ve tried centering prayer, but you don’t have a current practice. It didn’t seem to be for you. Or maybe you have a current practice, and you wonder how to deepen it. What comes Beyond Centering Prayer?
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What does AI know about prayer?
Does an AI-powered spiritual director make any kind of sense? Give it a try and let me know what you think!
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Meditating on Christ’s passion
We ponder God’s love for us, we see and even experience his suffering love for us, and our love for him grows in return.
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Contemplative book study: Revelations of Divine Love
Discover the profound wisdom of Julian of Norwich’s “Revelations of Divine Love.” Delve into its surprising and radically optimistic vision of sin, suffering, salvation and, most of all, God’s love. Join us online as we contemplate this profound book.
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Everything Belongs
In a retreat, you get away from it all to pray, to be in solitude, to spend time with God. Is it possible to have a similar experience, at home, with a smaller amount of time each day, over a longer period? Let’s find out!
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Knowledge and full insight
If you could listen in on Paul praying, what do you think he would be praying for?
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ChatGPT and machines that love
ChatGPT almost sounds like an AI system that can think. But will computers ever be able to love?
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I Want to Know Christ
I want to know Christ. That was my thought, more than 40 years ago, after attending the Sunday school class at my church intended to prepare students for profession of faith. For a whole year we studied the Heidelberg Catechism. Read more
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Case studies in prayer: 10
When I pray, and I start out meditating on a Bible passage, sometimes I can’t concentrate. My mind wants to wander. I may be thinking about good things, but I just can’t make my mind focus on what I’m reading. It’s like a mental fog.
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Case studies in prayer: 9
Sometimes when I pray I remember something I’ve done in the past or thoughts I’ve had or things I’ve wanted, and I see how far short I’ve fallen, and I can’t stand myself. I want to die.