Joy Unspeakable ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, We have a new featured book for September in our Lift Every Voice Book Club – Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church by Dr. Barbara Holmes. You can listen to the conversation Claudia Love Mair and I had about the book at this link. (And you can join us for a community conversation on September […]
Queerness and Contemplative Living ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, I am currently reading Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith by Mihee Kim-Kort. In her introduction she describes queerness as three things: First, it is a posture which transgresses boundaries, specifically around gender and sexuality but also beyond these. Second, it is playfulness, it experiments, it recognizes “the Holy Spirit in […]
Contemplation and Justice ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dearest monks, artists, and pilgrims, My word for this year is humility. It shimmered for me because I knew in the heart of these challenging times I have so much still to learn, much wisdom to glean and integrate. A commitment to always being on the journey is the heart of the monastic virtue of […]
New Poetry Video – Sabbath + Summer Sabbatical ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
New Poetry Video – Crossing the Divide ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess
Dreaming of Stones: Poems
Order Now Description Praise for the Book “To enter the pages of Christine Valters Paintner’s Dreaming of Stones feels akin to wandering the undulations of Celtic wilds, the barren landscape that cloisters timeless secrets and truths. It’s not hard to imagine ancient ruins off in the mist-drenched distance…The poems here are distillations of the most […]
Sacred Time
An 8 -week companion retreat to the book Sacred Time: Embracing an Intentional Way of Life. Guided by Christine & John Valters Paintner and Betsey Beckman.