Contemplate Lincoln

Join us for a time of conversation centered around short films from the project “The Work Of The People”. A collection of short films (5-10 mins) with insights from some of today’s most influential theologians and spiritual teachers. We will watch these films together followed by contemplation and conversation. Teachers include: Richard Rohr, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Walter Brueggemann, Brene Brown, Barbara Brown Taylor, Barbara Holmes, and many others. Our time will consist of contemplation and conversation. Register below. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfuisrT8qGNDxn5X-YSKubw5SQgHwxF6B

Join us via Zoom for House Church. We gather as our Christian spiritual ancestors did. In our houses, with hearts wide open to learn, share, support, worship, pray, and contemplate. Link What you will “need” (All Optional): Dinner, snack, coffee, or tea Elements for communion A house church style worship service. Intimate, participatory, prayerful, and transformative. In integral worship we seek to learn about God, praise God, and grow spiritually by including our whole selves (body, mind, & spirit) in worship. We engage and discuss scripture and writings of the prophets, mystics, and contemplatives. We pray with our mouths, bodies,...

A Hidden Wholeness:  the Journey toward an Undivided Life by Parker Palmer.  In this book Parker Palmer,  author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change, brings together these themes in an invitation for “soul work.”    Join us in the “journey toward an undivided life”– a group exploration of “What am I all about and what do I think about that?”   Led by Lorene Ludy, who is on this journey as a Quaker, mystic, Benedictine Oblate, spiritual director, Kundalini yoga teacher, and knows that we don’t do it by ourselves.

Contemplative Movement engages our physical selves in spiritual practice to promote wholeness, balancing activity with stillness.  The practice is accessible by all body types and experience levels. Chairs, mats, cushions, straps, blocks, eye and bolster pillows are used. Each practice may contain elements of body awareness, dance, yoga, prayer walks, breath work, biospiritual focusing, prostration, and silent meditation.  When cultivated through regular practice, Contemplative Movement is a holistic body-mind training to ease us into meditation and contemplation. It also helps us to engage our whole selves in our spiritual life.  The practice may draw on the yogic tradition to prepare...

Join us for a time of conversation centered around short films from the project “The Work Of The People”. A collection of short films (5-10 mins) with insights from some of today’s most influential theologians and spiritual teachers. We will watch these films together followed by contemplation and conversation. Teachers include: Richard Rohr, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Walter Brueggemann, Brene Brown, Barbara Brown Taylor, Barbara Holmes, and many others. Our time will consist of contemplation and conversation. Register below. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfuisrT8qGNDxn5X-YSKubw5SQgHwxF6B

Join us via Zoom for House Church. We gather as our Christian spiritual ancestors did. In our houses, with hearts wide open to learn, share, support, worship, pray, and contemplate. Link What you will “need” (All Optional): Dinner, snack, coffee, or tea Elements for communion A house church style worship service. Intimate, participatory, prayerful, and transformative. In integral worship we seek to learn about God, praise God, and grow spiritually by including our whole selves (body, mind, & spirit) in worship. We engage and discuss scripture and writings of the prophets, mystics, and contemplatives. We pray with our mouths, bodies,...