Sacred Steps

At Contemplation Lab, our weekly contemplative prayer group, we recently spent an evening praying Psalm 13 together. We wanted to make the practice available to everyone, so we've turned it into a guide you can use on your own with any psalm. It's one of the oldest forms of Christian meditation, and you don't need any experience to try it. This guide will show you how to feel the psalm from the inside, let it bring a real person or situation to mind, and then pray it on their

Do you long for more than Sunday but can't spare another evening out? Our Spiritual Formation team has arranged a church-wide license for the Renovaré Book Club, a year of guided spiritual reading you can do entirely at your own pace, at home. Membership is free to anyone in our congregation. What is the Renovaré Book Club? Renovaré is a ministry devoted to spiritual formation, and its book club walks a community through four classic and contemporary books over the course of

This month at Contemplation Lab, we're putting our imaginations to work. What is Ignatian contemplation? Ignatian contemplation (sometimes called imaginative prayer) comes from Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th-century Basque soldier-turned-mystic who founded the Jesuits. Recovering from a cannonball injury with nothing to read but lives of the saints, Ignatius noticed something: when he imagined himself into those stories, something in him moved. He came to trust that God speaks

What happens if you look at one image for several minutes? Not to analyze it. Simply to look and pay attention. It's a spiritual practice called Visio Divina, and we'd love for you to join us as we practice together.

This Holy Week, delve deeper into the heart of the passion story. Lectio Divina, a practice of prayerful reading, can guide you towards a powerful encounter with God's love and sacrifice. This ancient practice, literally meaning "divine reading," is all about going deeper with scripture (or any other meaningful text) by reading it slowly and attentively. It's like having a conversation with God. Lectio divina isn't about checking a box or getting the "right" answer. It's abou