The Rev. Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk and pioneer in the worldwide Christian contemplative prayer movement, died Thursday at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, where he had once been ...

Although nominally a non-denominational Christian church, the Aspen Chapel echoed last Sunday morning with the sounds of some decidedly non-Christian chanting. “Innal insana lafi khusr illal ladhina ...

Forty years of studying contemplation has led Fr. Keating to this conclusion: "All of Christianity and especially the institutional aspects and structures of it need to be regularly renewed to ensure ...

Thomas Keating, a leading figure in contemplative practice, died October 25 at age 95. He spent his final days at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, where he developed what is now known as ...

Keating wrote more than 30 books in his life, many available at Explore Booksellers in Aspen. When he died a year ago, at age 95, Father Thomas Keating was remembered around the world as a trailblazer ...

WASHINGTON — What is the Spirit doing now? This question frames the “New Contemplative Leaders Exchange,” a gathering of 19 young contemplative leaders with Thomas Keating, Tilden Edwards, Richard ...

Father William Meninger may need a cane to walk nowadays, and someone to plan his travels outside of the monastery, but the 83-year-old Trappist monk is still as dedicated to bringing the practice of ...

First, I fidget. I cross and uncross my legs, fold and unfold my hands, bow and raise my head. I discover muscles I didn’t know I had, muscles that twitch, quiver, itch, and ache. So I waste several ...

The Rev. Thomas Keating, a Trappist monk who helped pioneer the Christian contemplative prayer movement, once wrote that the aim of centering prayer is communing with God as “two friends sitting in ...

"Centering prayer is not something new," Keating tells interviewer Tom Fox. "It is simply an effort to update the apophatic contemplative tradition coming down from Gregory of Nyssa and The Cloud [of ...