What is Spirituality?

Key Themes of Christian Spirituality

• Part 1: “Spirituality as the Transformation of “Lived Human Experience” is the first of three articles in a series meant to provide an initial look at the field of Christian spirituality and its focus on experience. This article addresses the starting point of “lived human experience.”

• Part 2: “Emerging from the Mystic’s Cabin” clarifies the approach to “mystical experience.”

• Part 3: “Seeing from the Perspective of the Beloved Community” illustrates the significance of the communal plane of experience.

• Part 3b: “The Silicon Slipstream and Communal Experience” considers another related perspective on the Beloved Community, delivered in the voice of the (curiously community-minded) Underground Man of Silicon Valley.

The amplitude of our experience matters less than where our experiences turn us.

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Revisioning Spirituality: Human Transformation and the Communal Imagination

• “Thomas Merton and the Quest for Beloved Community,” an excerpt from my book with John Markey.

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