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We have taken a bit of a hiatus from the Via Negativa meditations to verge into the Via Creativa and Via Transformativa happenings around the
I love the picture accompanying today’s Daily Meditation! Taken in 1941 during the construction of the Jefferson Memorial and its northern seawall adjoining the Tidal
We are discussing mysticism and our experiences of the divine. Father Bede Griffiths, a Benedictine monk who pioneered interfaith or deep ecumenism from his ashram
In the following poem Merton names the spiritual practice of silence and the fire that is enkindled in the deep silence of meditation, the via
The Cosmic Christ theology was important to Thomas Merton. His famous mystical experience on crossing Walnut Street in downtown Louisville during noon rush hour, when
The word of God is everywhere and in everything, for “without the Word of God no creature has being. God’s Word is in all creation,
I think it may be time that Christians put the Nicene Creed on the shelf for a while and start paying attention more to the
The term “glory” or doxa is prominent in texts that celebrate the Cosmic Christ in the Scriptures. Glory and its synonym “beauty” are cosmological categories.
To speak of our experiences of the Divine, as we are doing in the current Daily Meditations, is to speak of the Cosmic Christ. The
In talking about Ecstasies as experiences of the Divine we find ourselves talking about “forgetting oneself,” for that is what ecstasies do—they take us to
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