Abbey of the Arts

Transformative Living through Contemplative & Expressive Arts

Welcome to Abbey of the Arts, a virtual monastery and global community.
We offer retreats & resources to nourish your inner monk, artist, and pilgrim.
  • Lift Every Voice: Contemplative Writers of Color
  • Welcome!
  • Revelations: The Mysticism of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
  • Writing Into Bloom<br>with Christine Valters Paintner




Engaging, practice-oriented books on the spiritual life by Christine Valters Paintner

Praise for the Abbey

This is what we need! Christine and John are offering us a "moving monastery" yet with solid grounding in Scripture, Nature, Art, the Tradition, and the Saints! Abbey of the Arts is spirituality for our time and every time.
—Richard Rohr, OFM

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