Receive regular Abbey soul nourishment and gifts for joining us. Subscribe to the love notes. Abbey of the Arts is a global online monastery. Are you a monk in the world? The path of contemplation. Are you a writer or artist? The path of creativity. Are you a pilgrim? The path of discovery. Engaging, thoughtful, and practice-oriented books on the spiritual life. I am Christine Valters Paintner.

Ramblings on theology, economics, politics and occasionally nonsense. Thursday, March 22, 2018. Wounded Knee and the 2nd Amendment. This article began as a FB post that generated more response than anticipated. While the comments represented widely divergent views, they were mostly respectful of each other, which is quite a change from most streams of commentary on FB. In any case, let us begin again. Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Adam, Eve, Evil and Art.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Friday, November 21, 2014. It has been a long time since I have posted anything on this blog. Not for lack of awareness of the blog. This blog and the Art and Meaning Project. I have learned a lot about the nature of loss and the fact that t.

Artist and author Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word, image, and faith. The wounds of the risen Christ are not a prison;. The Painted Prayerbook, March 2008. After Gary died, when people would ask me how I was doing, I would often say,. How will we let him breathe into us anew? Where will we let this lead us? This is also avail.

Prayers, Observations and reflections on the way to being. Yes, it is just another greeting card holiday.

Just became a vestry member for the first time. The prayer is attributed to a 19th century Russian monastery.

If the Pentecost feast is a time to rejoice in our relation.

it is also this dazzling darkness. Thursday, March 18, 2010. Have you ever been in a situation that you TRULY believed that there was a good chance that you were going to die? An accident or a diagnosis that caused you to really have to consider the fact that you might not only die, but die soon. I recently had such an experience and I have been paying attention to the what it has left in my mind, body and spirit. When we have wept many tears and they flow like rivers.

Monday, May 31, 2010. Like two giant fat people. Bumping into each other and. Sunday, May 9, 2010. The Lanyard - Billy Collins. The other day I was ricocheting slowly. Off the blue walls of this room,. Moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,. From bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,. When I found myself in the L section of the dictionary. Where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. No cookie nibbled by a French novelist. By a deep Adirondack lake.