2015 - Wisdom Waypoints

Best Wishes for a Meaningful Celebration of the Christ Event — In You

Bill Redfield | December 22, 2015

The challenge of this time of year is not just that we have to stand against the temptation of trying to live up to the culture’s (or our mother’s) expectation […]

Report: Wisdom Workshop with Matthew Wright

Sher Sacks | December 21, 2015

“I think some of you will be happy to hear how Matthew is playing in my old British Columbia stomping ground.” ~ Cynthia On November 23 and 24, 2015, Matthew […]

Remembering Bruno Barnhart
(April 10, 1931-November 28, 2015)

Cynthia Bourgeault | December 2, 2015

Fr. Bruno Barnhart, former prior of New Camaldoli Monastery, mystic, hermit, and my friend and spiritual father for more than thirty years, is now officially on the other side. He […]

Faith, Hope, and Love
Our Inaugural Fundraising Campaign

Cynthia Bourgeault | November 4, 2015

Dear Wisdom Friends, This email comes to invite you all, as dedicated Wisdom students, to rally behind Northeast Wisdom’s pilot fundraising campaign. As you know, Northeast Wisdom came into being […]

A “Negative Space” Eucharist based on Teilhard’s “Mass on the World”

Cynthia Bourgeault | July 27, 2015

“Eucharist” literally means “thanksgiving:” an offering up of praise and gratitude. Only in recent liturgical usage has the term come to be an accepted synonym for the Mass, or Holy […]

Ordinary Time

Lois Barton | June 9, 2015

Sometimes I find myself looking ahead in my calendar to do a survey of “coming events” thinking that once something major has happened things will turn back to normal (whatever that […]

Why I’m not sad about the empty pews

Cynthia Bourgeault | May 19, 2015

For this next blog post, I’m happy to turn the floor over to my beloved and insightful young friend, Gabrielle (Brie) Stoner. Here’s to the next generation!! — Cynthia On May 12, […]

Welcome to our NEW website!

Cynthia Bourgeault | April 16, 2015

We’re NEW in two ways. First, NEW is the acronym for Northeast Wisdom, the organization that a number of us have been slowly birthing over these past two years to […]

The Last Lily Story

Cynthia Bourgeault | February 20, 2015

As many of you know, my old cat Lily, faithful travelling companion of these past fifteen years, died last week on my birthday, which happened to fall this year on […]

Teilhard de Chardin: Apostle of the Incarnate God

Matthew Wright | January 27, 2015

An earlier version of this article appeared in Contemplative Journal Writing forty-eight years ago, Roman Catholic Archbishop Fulton Sheen predicted, “It is very likely that within fifty years when all […]