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Part 3: A Pastoral Response to Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Who Question or Attack the Good, True and Beautiful, yet Mistakenly Maligned Spiritual Practice of Centering Prayer

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

  by Rev. Peter Traben Haas    © 2010 www.ContemplativeChristians.com.   All Rights Reserved.          Misperception #3: Centering Prayer is dangerous.     Centering Prayer is not dangerous, but it can be disruptive. Centering Prayer is disruptive to the parts of us that wish to resist God’s love and grace. These parts, psychologically speaking, might be called the [...]

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Prayer Sonnet for Friday, June 11th, 2010:

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Contemplative Christianity

God of Prayer: Kiss us, each one, with the passion of your healing love felt in the silence of our inner room. We have been betrayed by the lie that we don’t have enough time. We have denied you for sleep, work, family, friends, sports, leisure, self. Everything belongs, and plays its part, yet healing [...]

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What is the Church For?

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Contemplative Christianity

© By Peter T. Haas The church is a community of persons who are in Christ.[i] The church is not a building. It is not a history. The church occurs when those in Christ gather together. As a community of individuals who are united to Christ, we experience much diversity, yet Christ, by the Spirit, [...]

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The Mystic Stream through the Christian Tradition (C.E.), Part 1

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Contemplative Christianity

Brief highlights of the mystic stream begining with Jesus.

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Why Christian Mysticism?

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Contemplative Christianity

© 2009 Peter T. Haas At the beginning of the third millennium of Christian faith, the study and experience of Christian mysticism is of vital importance for Christians and the Protestant community.  I believe this is so because the experience of the mystical union with God and the experience of God’s presence and action beyond [...]

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