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INTO THE WILDERNESS
These days, I inhabit the Wilderness because I crave the prayer of Union, as St. Teresa would describe it. In the beginning, however, I...
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Orienting yourself in the Wilderness
From INTO THE WILDERNESS: A 12 Month Guide Clearing the way for a STILL/WILD practice You can move through the following twelve sections...
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STILL IN THE MIDST OF BUSY
Photo: Shawanna Kendrick, Chattanooga, TN) By this point, my kids are grown and out of the house, I work at home, and there's a pandemic...
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CALLING ALL WOMEN!
Samara Gaev @truthworker is the founder of Truthworker Theatre Company and a prisoner rights advocate. "Working inside of a movement...
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STILL/WILD Home
STILL/WILD has a particular ethos, a rich aesthetic, an earthy mysticism, and is both a practice and a way of life. At S/W, we love...
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STEP AWAY FROM YOUR SCREENS
In this, the age of screens, the idea of setting your phone down - on the subway, in the doctors office, every time you have a spare...
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Prayer Candles
"I will hold you in the Light," the good Quakers say. (I attended Quaker meeting years ago.) I've said it countless times over the years,...
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Dinner Plates and the Death Penalty
For the most part, I conceptualize STILL as quiet contemplation, and WILD as fierce and unrelenting change-making; contemplative Justice,...
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Before and After STILL/WILD
I'm always fascinated by before and after pictures of radical, physical transformations, like this one of my friend Danielle Mitchell...
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Divine Therapy
Get a load of this astonishing claim: “Through the regular practice of centering prayer,” writes Thomas Keating “the dynamism of interior...
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Little Hands of God
It happened three weeks ago in North Carolina, in the wee hours of the morning. “This is the kind of Friend You are - Without making me...
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Spring = WILD
If I didn't love the warm weather months so much, I would be heartbroken to see the winter end each year, what with all its wild and...
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Meditation, yes. But first: THE SCREAM
For three days in a row, my attempts to enter into the Stillness have been laughable - in a torturous, unfunny sort of way. I am well and...
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