These days, I inhabit the Wilderness because I crave the prayer of Union, as St. Teresa would describe it. In the beginning, however, I...

From INTO THE WILDERNESS: A 12 Month Guide Clearing the way for a STILL/WILD practice You can move through the following twelve sections...

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...

Samara Gaev @truthworker is the founder of Truthworker Theatre Company and a prisoner rights advocate. "Working inside of a movement...

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...

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...

"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,...

For the most part, I conceptualize STILL as quiet contemplation, and WILD as fierce and unrelenting change-making; contemplative Justice,...

I'm always fascinated by before and after pictures of radical, physical transformations, like this one of my friend Danielle Mitchell...

Get a load of this astonishing claim: “Through the regular practice of centering prayer,” writes Thomas Keating “the dynamism of interior...

Lately, for the record, I've been describing my attempts at Stillness as a "bad trip to the Badlands." (Many of the photos on this...

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...

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...

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...