This year's Lenten series for Holy Everything is focused on spiritual practices. Today we begin with our first of eight spiritual practices: spiritual direction. Spiritual direction is time and space ...

Spiritual directors on staff at the Franciscan Spirituality Center, 920 Market St., will offer a free informational session to answer the question, “What is spiritual direction?” Karna Marks and Steve ...

The Journey Continues Program is part of the Clough School of Theology and Ministry’s comprehensive Spirituality Studies Program. Advanced degrees in Spirituality Studies, certificate programs, ...

I suddenly realized I had traveled a very long way. The trip to see a spiritual director for the first time was further than the 12 miles from my local Evangelical Free Church to the home of a ...

Therese Taylor-Stinson is the managing member of the Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd., which she founded in 2008. The group has produced three books: Embodied Spirits, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody ...

Evangelicals are listening for God in ways that are different from our usual understanding of discipleship. We are looking at many Christian disciplines, including prayer, silence and solitude, ...

Spiritual direction at St. Mary's Ryken in Leonardtown, Maryland, started six or seven years ago, when one theology teacher, John Olon (whom I've written about, along with his brother Rich, here) ...

Last spring, after a divorce, Qadeera Ingram needed someone to talk to. Specifically, she wanted to be able to speak about spirituality and the bigger picture of her life. Although Ingram, a ...

Jeffery Lookabaugh was taught never to question his faith. So he never challenged the Baptist teachings that he grew up with that queer people were bad and broken. He buried his feelings of attraction ...

A few years ago, Casper ter Kuile sat across from a woman and told her he did not want to pray on his knees. She suggested, instead, that he try standing up, with his hands open, in the position used ...

Nondenominational “spiritual companions” offer to connect clients to the divine in their everyday life. By Andrea Cooper Last spring, after a divorce, Qadeera Ingram needed someone to talk to.