Laura Ruth, Author at Wisdom Waypoints

Four Songs, and a Poem: To the Core at the Center of the Last Chapter of Fourth and Nondual

Laura Ruth | May 26, 2023

I When Cynthia Bourgeault wrote The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, she was given the boundaries each My Theology series author was to adhere to: forty typewritten pages to be […]

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles: Holy Week and the Great Easter Fast

Laura Ruth | April 4, 2023

How poignant to be leaning into [Cynthia’s] writing about Holy Week and the fifty days following Easter—as we enter Holy Week together. Ascension and Pentecost, yet to come.

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles: Chapters Three, Four & Five

Laura Ruth | February 21, 2023

What did Jesus teach—”on the ground” as we say these days—and how? These chapters center on the living Jesus and his teachings.

Here and Now With The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: The Preface and Chapters One, Two, and Three

Laura Ruth | February 7, 2022

Laura Ruth provides her reflections on The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, as this inaugural Wisdom Practice Book Circle Foundational Series II gets underway.

Points Along the Way: Wisdom Waypoints and The Echo of The Lord Have Mercy

Laura Ruth | December 17, 2020

The Jesus Prayer has been part of my practice for a number of years now, and recently it has taken a deeper dive into the body with the introduction of […]

Here and Now: You, Me and Northeast Wisdom

Laura Ruth | August 14, 2020

Yesterday, my feet hit the dirt road that leads to the trail to White Rocks and Hunger Mountain as the dogs tumbled out and my sister rose from the stone […]

Here, Between Ascension and Pentecost

Laura Ruth | June 9, 2019

The light is changing now, and it is true, the day has just passed into ‘civil twilight.’ I have been tracking this on and off this spring, and am consistently […]

Beyond the Basics, Our Hearts in Advent: A Southeast Arising Wisdom School With Jeanine Siler-Jones, Laura Copeland and Rebecca Parker.

Laura Ruth | May 28, 2019

God is in full solidarity with the created world, form poses no impediment to divinity. Surrender is connected to generativity, the Sacrament of Incarnation. ~ Cynthia Bourgeault In February of […]

Encountering the Heart of Silence: A Conversation with Cynthia Bourgeault in Two Parts

Laura Ruth | April 12, 2019

When people gather in silence, a deeper kind of collective, synergistic, numinous knowing unfolds. And that’s the only knowing that’s worth a damn, particularly when you’re working with the infinite. […]

Bruno Barnhart’s Movement I: The Sapiential Awakening

Laura Ruth | March 5, 2019

Bruno Barnhart brought me right into life in the world when he opened the second chapter of The Future of Wisdom with the words, “Wisdom begins in wonder. Something profound […]