The enneagram is now a popular tool for categorizing and understanding personality. I've found it to be a tool for deepening my relationship with God that is easily integrated into a Christian understanding and practice.
Soul Seeing: Here I am again, in a room at the local retreat house. As I settle in with my overflowing bag of books and a cup of coffee, I set my cellphone to vibrate and am ready to begin my prayer day.
NCR recently asked how to keep spiritually grounded in a pandemic crisis. Readers responded with how they deepen their faith life and spiritual practice.
NCR recently asked how to keep spiritually grounded in a pandemic crisis. Readers responded with how they deepen their faith life and spiritual practice.
NCR Connections: "Light is not so much what you directly see as that by which you see everything else." With gratitude to Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr for that beautiful line from his latest book, it seems a fitting frame for the season and for the era.
Nick Venner, 18, is one of the plaintiffs in a groundbreaking lawsuit that argues that the U.S. government facilitated the growth of the fossil fuel industry and knew for decades about the potential climate fallout.
I am in my late 70s, but it has only been recently that I have begun to experience grace arising from the worst kind of pain, from the depths of pain, and in the death of two of my children.
