Certificate in Contemplative Spiritual Direction
Columbia Theological Seminary 701 South Columbia Drive, DecaturThe certificate offering is a 2-year formation and training program for persons who discern a call to the ministry of spiritual direction. Applicants will begin Phase I in July 2025.
Contemplative Living II: Daily Life as Prayer – via Zoom
Internet - OnlineYour life is hidden with Christ in God. - Colossians 3:3 Further enrich your contemplative life and embrace the practice of living each day as a form of prayer. In
Black Contemplative Prayer Virtual Summit
Internet - OnlineHosted by Pastor Tia Norman, friend of Contemplative Outreach and Centering Prayer Facilitator. On February 22-23, the Black Contemplative Prayer Virtual Summit brings together black spiritual teachers and thought leaders to explore prayer, activism, and community. In the contemplative community, diversity is essential. This summit addresses a critical question that arises in contemplative communities and
Spirituality of the Earth: Thomas Berry’s Wisdom for an Ecological Age – in person and online
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West HartfordThomas Berry, C.P., arguably the father of “ecological spirituality,” anticipated by decades the contemporary turn toward Earth as the living home of incarnate divinity, exhorting us to awaken to our sacred role within the “New Story” and the “Great Work” in a living community honored and protected as “a communion of subjects, not a collection
