Book Review. ‘Hold the Rope, Carry Your Cross: Christianity and The Ten Bull Pictures of Zen’, by Andrew McAlister and Carlos Siqueira.

This review was published in the WCCM oblate newletter Via Vitae (Way of Life) in 2022. More information about the

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The Mantra As A Salve

Maybe we begin our daily meditation feeling somehow anxious. Perhaps there is a woundedness, or a recent reactivity, sitting in

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Gentleness: The Misunderstood Fruit of the Spirit

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

Meditation Creates Community: A Day Together (Part 1)

Recently a group of meditators gathered for a day at the  Blue Labyrinth Bush Retreat in The Blue Mountains, west

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The Shed: Be, Into Silence (Part 2)

A few years ago I discovered the Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo. One of my favourite Endo novels is called Silence.

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