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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.

Living from Good, Living Between Worlds

Bill Britten | March 20, 2023

Please consider this writing as a communiqué from out on the Wisdom path—a report on where one of your fellow travelers is currently located, how I got here, and what the terrain looks like.

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles: Becoming Real—Chapters 6, 7, 12

Liz Keller Whitehurst | March 13, 2023

This year marks my tenth anniversary with The Wisdom Jesus. It came to me when I’d just begun practicing Centering Prayer at a time of great need and personal crisis

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.

The Wisdom Jesus Book Circles launching January 31, 2023

Jeanine Siler Jones | January 24, 2023

In preparation for this deep dive together, I invite us all into a slow reading of The Wisdom Jesus, Lectio Divina style.

It is Advent and I am making bread

Andrew Breitenberg | December 21, 2022

It is Advent and I am making bread, ingredients already at hand, one free mind, one open heart, one body, sensing

“Mystical Hope” Chapter Five

Paula Pryce | November 10, 2022

At the book’s beginning, Cynthia Bourgeault describes how mystical hope differs from an ordinary kind of hope. Mystical hope is not something that hinges on clambering aspiration and starry-eyed dreams, but is instead a way of being in relationship here and now with “a light-force that radiates objectively.

“Mystical Hope” Chapter Four

Laura Ruth | October 11, 2022

Each time I read Mystical Hope, I find myself struck in a new way by a turn of phrase or Cynthia’s genius relating poignant truth.

“Mystical Hope” Chapters Two and Three

Beth O'Neil | September 10, 2022

It is all that keeps us going at times–isn’t it? A cry of ‘Lord Mercy us’!! I am grateful to this pint-sized, potent book.

Reflections on a Wisdom School

Jonathan Steele | September 7, 2022

Twenty-nine brave souls gathered to explore Wisdom through the lens of the Enneagram. Locating our work within the framework of Gurdjieff’s five ‘Obligonian Strivings,’ we discovered that it is from the foundation of abundance, goodness and yearning, that we are invited to wield agency through growing knowledge, being and presence in order to then take our posts as responsible stewards of energy and servants of the whole.