The Soul of a Pilgrim is featured in the Patheos book club for the first half of June and to kick things off the lovely Deborah Arca interviewed me. I am very touched by her beautiful introduction: "One of my very favorite writers on the spiritual life is Christine Valters Paintner, an author, ... read more
Abbey Updates and Links
Life has been full here at the Abbey this summer. I am very hard at work this week getting ready to teach an intensive class on Contemporary Expressions of Monastic Spirituality for the School of Theology andMinistry next week. I am so delighted to immerse myself in the coming days in discussion ... read more
Beauty and Spirituality
Have you checked out Patheos yet? (the great new site exploring different religious traditions) I will be contributing to them regularly on the topic of art and spirituality and my latest article is here -- Beauty and Spirituality -- so pour yourself a cup of tea and contemplate the role of beauty ... read more
Soultribe Interview
The lovely Rachelle at Magpie Girl interviewed me for her series on creating Soultribes (a generous soulcare community). Go over and read about my own experience of creating and sustaining a small group for deep soul work and then share some of your own wisdom. Make sure you also read ... read more
Creativity Resources
Two links worth pouring a cup of tea for and lingering over: The lovely Rachelle is writing about photography as a spiritual practice over at her weekly Blogher column. She is featuring my post on the subject (which has been one of the most linked-to posts I have written recently) as well as a ... read more
The Abbey is back!
I was away for the weekend attending a workshop and returned last night to find my website down. After some long holds and frustrations with my hosting company and then the intervention of my web guy things are back on track now. Apparently my site got hacked which a pretty unsettling idea. There ... read more
Kathleen Norris
I have had a few emails inquiring about how Kathleen Norris' talk was last Saturday. I will write more as we get closer to Advent since she focused primarily on her contribution to the book God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas (which may become my new favorite resource for Advent ... read more
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