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“…let’s make a group decision to drop once and for all the Bible-as-owner’s manual metaphor. It’s terrible. It really is. When was the last time you read the owner’s manual for your toaster? Do you find it remotely inspiring or meaningful?…

      Shauna, one of our Partners has provided this beautiful photo with a corresponding prayer.  Thanks, Shauna!   © Shauna Bjorndahl Enter The Silence   do not fear the silence   it is anything but quiet   but…

Here is what emerged from  participants, mostly lay leaders,  at the end of a recent contemplative worship seminar led by two SoulStream partners. What we left behind anxiety and having control boxes that I contain God in fear, anxiety and…

The SoulStream Leadership Group recently began a planning retreat with a song by Stephen Iverson entitled, A Holy Rest. Here are the beautiful lyrics offered to you for your meditation.   A Holy Rest (Stephen Iverson)   Calm, quiet, open…

A brother at Scetis committed a fault.  A council was called to which Abba Moses was invited, but he refused to go to it. Then the priest sent someone to say to him, ‘Come, for everyone is waiting.  So he…

“If it’s God’s Spirit blowing, someone ends up having feathers ruffled in an unforeseen way.”  Sue Monk Kidd.  

Belden Lane, in his book The Solace of Fierce Landscapes, helps us see the contemplative motivation for true social actioion: ” As a Trappist monk writing his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, from a Kentucky monastery in 1947, Merton came…

In the SoulStream community dialogue around the terrible accident suffered by Steve Imbach, the Director of SoulStream, one of the partners said the following.  I think it is important for all who want to grow in the contemplative way.  …