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Contemplate Lincoln

A place to deepen your spiritual life
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Our Mission

We are a hub for contemplative prayer, practice, and living. Our mission is to provide a sacred and safe space to foster spiritual growth. In communion with others at Contemplate we participate in the Christ mystery through contemplative practice, learning, growing, and doing life together. Through community, practice, and service we transform ourselves and our world.

Our History

We began as a dream in 2016 to open a center in Lincoln Nebraska dedicated to teaching, promoting, and facilitating contemplative prayer and practice through the Christian contemplative tradition. Stage 1 was meeting in small groups at J-Tech Construction and holding introductory workshops. Stage 2 was moving into our own home at 135 North 31st Street. In 2017 we began a full slate of services and activities. In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic paused our in person services and we began meeting online. What emerge was a vibrant contemplative community that transcended location as we had visitors from across the country and Canada. In 2022 we began stage 3 with our move to our new digital home, The Contemplative Cathedral, where we are deepening community, practice, and action.

Our Board

Juliet Andersen
Treasurer

Juliet Andersen

Joselyn Luedtke JD
Chair of the Board

Joselyn Luedtke JD

Marvin Anderson PhD
Board Member At Large

Marvin Anderson PhD

Rev. Paul Smith
Board Member At Large

Rev. Paul Smith

Adam Luedtke PhD
Founder, Former Chair of the Board (2016-2019), Board Member, Director & Pastor

Adam Luedtke PhD

Juliet Andersen

Treasurer

Juliet Andersen

Juliet is a web designer in Lincoln, NE. She holds degrees in chemistry and web design. She is passionate about her puppies, grand kids, gardening, and photography. She loves to be creative.
Joselyn Luedtke JD

Chair of the Board

Joselyn Luedtke JD

Joselyn is an attorney and government relations expert in Lincoln, NE. She has studied law, environmental law, and natural resources. She is passionate about nature, policy, and family.

Marvin Anderson PhD

Board Member At Large

Marvin Anderson PhD

Marvin Lee Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology (2006). He also holds a M.A. in Religious Studies from Mundelein College, Chicago (1980) where he studied Creation Spirituality in Matthew Fox’s first graduate program. Dr. Anderson is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto, unearthing the influence of late medieval German mysticism on the Reformation. Dr. Anderson has taught rural ministry for numerous theological faculties and seminaries in both Canada and the U.S. and is a consultant on congregational renewal and community development. He lives in Toronto, Canada. He was formerly the Chair of the board for the Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality.

Rev. Paul Smith

Board Member At Large

Rev. Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a mystic, author, and teacher of the Jesus path. He retired six years ago from his forty-nine-year pastorate at Broadway Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He has taught at churches, seminaries, and various religious gatherings around the country. As a leading voice of Integral Christianity in Ken Wilber’s IntegralLife.com, his most recent book is Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s call to Evolve. His forthcoming book this Fall, 2017, from Paragon House, Is Your God Big Enough? Close Enough? You Enough? The Full Spectrum God of Jesus. Paul is the cofounder of The Integral Christian Network.

Adam Luedtke PhD

Founder, Former Chair of the Board (2016-2019), Board Member, Director & Pastor

Adam Luedtke PhD

Adam has a PhD in Psychology and a Masters of Arts in Transpersonal Studies. Adam completed his PhD by researching the spiritual development of contemporary Christian mystics. In addition to psychology, as a scholar Adam has studied religion, early Christianity, Hebrew Studies, psychology, transpersonal psychology, qualitative research, personal and spiritual growth, meditation, prayer, Christian mysticism, contemplation, creative expression, and positive life practices. Adam practices centering prayer everyday and is a proponent of personal cultivation, meditation, spiritual practices, Christian mysticism, and Christian contemplation.

Our Founding Board

Adam Luedtke PhD
Director, Group Leader

Adam Luedtke PhD

Dr. Peter T. Haas
Former Director of Contemplative Programs 2016-2019

Dr. Peter T. Haas

Marvin Anderson PhD
Board Member At Large

Marvin Anderson PhD

Joselyn Luedtke JD
Chair of the Board

Joselyn Luedtke JD

Rev. Paul Smith
Board Member At Large

Rev. Paul Smith

Juliet Andersen
Treasurer

Juliet Andersen

Adam Luedtke PhD

Director, Group Leader

Adam Luedtke PhD

Adam has a Ph.D in Psychology, B.A. in religious studies, and is a certified transformational coach.

Dr. Peter T. Haas

Former Director of Contemplative Programs 2016-2019

Dr. Peter T. Haas

Dr. Peter Traben Haas is founder and editor of ContemplativeChristians.com and is a certified Centering Prayer instructor and retreat leader. He is the author of numerous books on contemplative prayer, including Centering Prayers: A One Year Companion for Going Deeper Into the Love of God. His most recent title is My Yes is Yours: A Daily Contemplative Companion for Advent and Christmas. Peter serves as a teaching pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Peter earned his M.Div. from Princeton Seminary and a Doctorate of Ministry from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Peter currently serves as senor pastor at The Church of Conscious Harmony and Christian Contemplative Church in Austin, TX.

Marvin Anderson PhD

Board Member At Large

Marvin Anderson PhD

Marvin Lee Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology (2006). He also holds a M.A. in Religious Studies from Mundelein College, Chicago (1980) where he studied Creation Spirituality in Matthew Fox’s first graduate program. Dr. Anderson is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Reformation and Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto, unearthing the influence of late medieval German mysticism on the Reformation. Dr. Anderson has taught rural ministry for numerous theological faculties and seminaries in both Canada and the U.S. and is a consultant on congregational renewal and community development. He lives in Toronto, Canada. He was formerly the Chair of the board for the Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality.

Joselyn Luedtke JD

Chair of the Board

Joselyn Luedtke JD

Joselyn is an attorney and government relations expert in Lincoln, NE. She has studied law, environmental law, and natural resources. She is passionate about nature, policy, and family.

Rev. Paul Smith

Board Member At Large

Rev. Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a mystic, author, and teacher of the Jesus path. He retired six years ago from his forty-nine-year pastorate at Broadway Church in Kansas City, Missouri. He has taught at churches, seminaries, and various religious gatherings around the country. As a leading voice of Integral Christianity in Ken Wilber’s IntegralLife.com, his most recent book is Integral Christianity: The Spirit’s call to Evolve. His forthcoming book this Fall, 2017, from Paragon House, Is Your God Big Enough? Close Enough? You Enough? The Full Spectrum God of Jesus. Paul is the cofounder of The Integral Christian Network.

Juliet Andersen

Treasurer

Juliet Andersen

Juliet is a web designer in Lincoln, NE. She holds degrees in chemistry and web design. She is passionate about her puppies, grand kids, gardening, and photography. She loves to be creative.

Upcoming Events

Feb
1
Wed
9:15 am Contemplative Wespace
Contemplative Wespace
Feb 1 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
Contemplative Wespace @ Contemplate Lincoln
Wednesday 9:15am: Register via this link on zoom. A whole body meditation awakening us to our deep connection to each other, physical reality, and each other. Our time also includes a brief check-in.
Feb
2
Thu
9:15 am BioSpiritual Focusing
BioSpiritual Focusing
Feb 2 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
BioSpiritual Focusing @ Contemplate Lincoln
Thursdays 9:15am: Register via this link on zoom. A practice that provides a way to bring the body’s sense for grace and God into everyday awareness, helping you to become more fully present to yourself, others and to God.
Feb
3
Fri
5:30 pm Contemplative Movement
Contemplative Movement
Feb 3 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Contemplative Movement @ Contemplate Lincoln
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...
Feb
5
Sun
2:30 pm Contemplative Conversations: The...
Contemplative Conversations: The...
Feb 5 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Contemplative Conversations: The Work of the People @ 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
4:00 pm House Church: Contemplative, Par...
House Church: Contemplative, Par...
Feb 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
House Church: Contemplative, Participatory, Worship @ Contemplate Lincoln
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. Register Here: 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...
Feb
7
Tue
9:15 am Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer
Feb 7 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
Centering Prayer @ Contemplate Lincoln
Register via this link on zoom. Simple contemplative prayer in which we consent to the transformative power of God in lives.
Feb
8
Wed
9:15 am Contemplative Wespace
Contemplative Wespace
Feb 8 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
Contemplative Wespace @ Contemplate Lincoln
Wednesday 9:15am: Register via this link on zoom. A whole body meditation awakening us to our deep connection to each other, physical reality, and each other. Our time also includes a brief check-in.
Feb
9
Thu
9:15 am BioSpiritual Focusing
BioSpiritual Focusing
Feb 9 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
BioSpiritual Focusing @ Contemplate Lincoln
Thursdays 9:15am: Register via this link on zoom. A practice that provides a way to bring the body’s sense for grace and God into everyday awareness, helping you to become more fully present to yourself, others and to God.
Feb
10
Fri
5:30 pm Contemplative Movement
Contemplative Movement
Feb 10 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Contemplative Movement @ Contemplate Lincoln
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...
Feb
12
Sun
2:30 pm Contemplative Conversations: The...
Contemplative Conversations: The...
Feb 12 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Contemplative Conversations: The Work of the People @ 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
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Contemplate Lincoln is a 501c3 not for profit Christian Contemplative Center located at 135 North 31st Street Lincoln, NE. Mailing Address PO BOX 29341 Lincoln, NE 68529
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Upcoming Events
Feb
1
Wed
9:15 am Contemplative Wespace
Contemplative Wespace
Feb 1 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
Contemplative Wespace @ Contemplate Lincoln
Wednesday 9:15am: Register via this link on zoom. A whole body meditation awakening us to our deep connection to each other, physical reality, and each other. Our time also includes a brief check-in.
Feb
2
Thu
9:15 am BioSpiritual Focusing
BioSpiritual Focusing
Feb 2 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
BioSpiritual Focusing @ Contemplate Lincoln
Thursdays 9:15am: Register via this link on zoom. A practice that provides a way to bring the body’s sense for grace and God into everyday awareness, helping you to become more fully present to yourself, others and to God.
Feb
3
Fri
5:30 pm Contemplative Movement
Contemplative Movement
Feb 3 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Contemplative Movement @ Contemplate Lincoln
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...
Feb
5
Sun
2:30 pm Contemplative Conversations: The...
Contemplative Conversations: The...
Feb 5 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Contemplative Conversations: The Work of the People @ 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
4:00 pm House Church: Contemplative, Par...
House Church: Contemplative, Par...
Feb 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
House Church: Contemplative, Participatory, Worship @ Contemplate Lincoln
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. Register Here: 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...
Feb
7
Tue
9:15 am Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer
Feb 7 @ 9:15 am – 10:00 am
Centering Prayer @ Contemplate Lincoln
Register via this link on zoom. Simple contemplative prayer in which we consent to the transformative power of God in lives.
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