A handful of men and women sat in a semicircle in the chapel at St. Thomas More Student Parish. With their eyes closed and hands in their laps, they listened to soft music playing in the background ...

St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history?

There was a time, the Rev. Laurence Freeman says, when meditation was taboo in much of Christianity. "Protestants thought it was too Catholic, and Catholics thought it was too Protestant in that it ...

Meditation helped the Rev. David Peck when he played soccer in college. “Taking a penalty kick is more contemplative than active,” says Peck, rector at St. James Episcopal Church. “It’s all about ...

In 1961, weeks after graduating from high school, James Finley rose one morning before dawn and left a note. In defiance of his father, who had refused to allow him to leave, he boarded a bus for the ...

Fr Laurence Freeman OSB, spiritual teacher of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), is visiting New Zealand in April. A monk of the Monastery of Christ the King in Cockfosters London in ...

Hi, I'm Geoff Wood, and this is The Rhythm Divine. This week we're diving deep into the river of song and spirituality with music for Christian Meditation. That's coming up later, along with ...

Meditation is practiced in cultures all over the world. But when and where did it begin? In this blog post, we’ll explore this question. In the Indus Valley, archaeologists discovered evidence of ...

Taizé worship, originating from France, incorporates music and prayers with songs in many languages, including chants and icons from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Kinley Lange has been working as a ...