How Did We Get Here?

In July this year, I helped run a five-day retreat at Campfire In The Heart near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. The retreat, ‘Christ as Country: Creation Infused With Grace’, looked at Australian First Nations values and Western/Colonial values, as well as Christian Celtic and contemplative ways of life, as an answer to the current multi-crisis of ecology, economy, and politics. What follows is the text from one teaching session. Each session on the retreat began with a period of meditation.

Meditation and Reverence for Creation (Part 2)

What is happening now, in this day and age, is a consequence and a reminder that the practice of leaving self behind has not been practiced by enough people. Its value has been lost.

Meditation and Reverence for Creation (Part 1)

What has meditation got to do with our relationship with Creation?

Practicing Gentleness: Meditation and Passing Through the Crowd

This is the third and final part of notes that were prepared for an online Younger Christian Meditators retreat day conducted on June 20, 2020.

Practicing Gentleness: Contemplative walking

This is part two of notes that were prepared for an online Younger Christian Meditators retreat day contucted on June 20, 2020.