The Mercy Blog

In those deeper waters of Centering Prayer—in those nanoseconds (at first) between the thoughts, when your attention is not running out ahea...

The way of pure faith is to persevere in contemplative practice without worrying about where we are on the journey, and without comparing ou...

 Reply I have recently come to realise that many of the problems so often encountered by lone contemplative practitioners – spiritual crises...

This “close but not identical” affinity between Western unitive and Eastern nondual suggests that we look a little more closely at the pheno...

Jesus was not the lone exemplar. Jesus was not the standalone symbol for the pattern of the universe. Resurrection is just the way things wo...

Faith is not the same as belief. Faith is what Jay Matthews described as staying at the center with God. In my lexicon, God is simply anothe...

The period of early Christianity is one of the key building blocks in my lineage of faith. It’s an overlooked area for much of the Roman Chu...