Day 7: Beauty

Prayer Cycle / Cultivating Seeds of Liberation / Day 7 Video, Audio and Written Guides for Morning and Evening Prayer Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Make A Donation Purchase the companion album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy Morning Prayer Video podcast coming in 2026 OPENING PRAYER We open up to the splendor […]

Day 2: Vision

Prayer Cycle / Cultivating Seeds of Liberation / Day 2 Video, Audio and Written Guides for Morning and Evening Prayer Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Make A Donation Purchase the companion album Cultivating Seeds of Liberation: Songs of Justice and Joy Morning Prayer Video podcast coming in 2026 OPENING PRAYER This morning, we call on mystics […]

Ripened (S)aging: A Good Friday Invitation ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess

Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Today we begin Holy Week and observe the transformative journey toward Easter and Resurrection. Before we jump to Resurrection it is important to sit with the landscape of grief and holy pause. On Friday, April 18th, Wisdom Council Member, psychospiritual therapist, and interfaith spiritual companion Melissa Layer will lead us in the […]

Monk in the World Guest Post: Amy Oden

I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Amy Oden’s reflection on silence in academic settings. As a professor I live much of my life with students in learning and discovery. This happens in physical classrooms, outside classrooms, in retreat […]

Feast of Sister Thea Bowman ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess

Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Today is the feast day of Sister Thea Bowman, an amazing woman whose vibrancy still radiates to us today, calling us to shine our lights in a world that is often hard to bear. Even in the midst of a slow and painful death from cancer, she embodied joyful […]

Earth Psalter: Writing Psalms for the Anthropocene ~ A Love Note from Your Online Abbess

Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, This Friday we are delighted to welcome Wisdom Council member Cassidhe Hart and her teaching partner Grant Showalter-Swanson for a creative mini-retreat on Earth Psalter: Writing Psalms for the Anthropocene. Read on for their reflection on this spiritual practice. My (Cassidhe’s) family moved frequently as a child, and as a […]

A Different Kind of Fast Lenten Retreat

A 7 week companion retreat to the book by Christine Valters Paintner. This program is designed to be a Lenten retreat but the material is available any time.