Sacred Steps

Walk our labyrinth by candlelight on Sunday, December 6, at Oak Hill UMC in Austin. Hundreds of small lights line the path as we gather at 6:00 pm and walk at 6:30 pm in the December dark — an Advent prayer you take one step at a time. Free, open to everyone, no registration or experience needed. Longtime church members, first-time walkers, and anyone somewhere on the edges of faith are all genuinely welcome. Come as you are; dress for the cold. The light shines in the darkne

By: Evelyn It had been a dreary few days of rain and grey clouds, but when Saturday came, the sky was blue again and the sun shone just in time for about fifty of us to walk OHUMC's labyrinth on World Labyrinth Day. Our intention, and for others around our planet, was to walk for peace. Each participating labyrinth site would begin a walk at 1:00 p.m. in their own time zone, so that our prayers for peace would flow all around our globe for twenty-four hours. Labyrinth facili

Join us on May 2nd for World Labyrinth Day, an annual global event where thousands of people in dozens of countries walk labyrinths together as a moving meditation for peace.

Some seasons ask more of us than we have words for. When prayer feels hard to begin, sometimes the best thing to do is head outside — and inward — and walk the labyrinth. A SPIRITUAL Practice for This Moment We live in complicated times. The news is heavy, uncertainty is constant, and many of us are carrying grief and stress we can't quite name. Walking a labyrinth is one of the oldest contemplative practices in the world, and it turns out to be a remarkably fitting one for e

Embark on a spiritual journey this Holy Saturday (April 19) with an ancient Christian tradition: walking a labyrinth! For centuries, labyrin