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Tag: Writing

Writing

Writing, Quoting, Creating: On the Use of Other People’s Words in the Midst of Your Own

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Carl McColman

Speaking to the Shalem Institute a few years back, Richard Rohr told an amusing story about a retreat he gave to the monks of Gethsemani Abbey (where Thomas Mer...

Family

The Communion of Saints Who Watch Over Me As I Write

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Carl McColman

Today’s post is just for fun! This morning on Facebook my cousin Danny, up in Manhattan, made a comment about the beautiful icon of the Holy Cross, writte...

Books/Culture

A Lesson on Creativity and Risk-Taking from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Publisher

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Carl McColman

Today I had a conversation with a friend who is working on a manuscript for a book to be published in the next year or so. We were chatting about the joys and c...

Books

Remembering the Monk Who Wrote About Grace

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Carl McColman

Last week Father James Behrens, OCSO died suddenly. He was 71 years old. Father James had been a Catholic priest for 45 years and a Trappist monk for 25 years. ...

Spirituality

Silence and Words are Like Yin and Yang: a Contemplative Spirituality Needs Both

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Carl McColman

How does language help us — or hinder us — as we try to express our understanding of God — probably the most inexpressible subject imaginable? We adults can rea...

Spirituality

What’s in a (Sacred) Story? Meditating on the Mysteries of Our Faith

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Carl McColman

To be a mystic is to be the explorer of both Divine and human mysteries (which corresponds to Jesus’s two essential teachings, “Love God” and ...

Miscellaneous

How to Support this Blog

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Carl McColman

Readers like you make this blog possible. When you make a pledge to support this blog, you not only have the satisfaction of knowing you are partnering with me ...

Mysticism

Why I Wrote a Book About Christian Mystics

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Carl McColman

When Peter Gabriel came to Atlanta in 2003, my wife Fran and I were able to get tickets to the concert through a friend who works in the music business. Not onl...

Spirituality

An Accident and its Aftermath

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Carl McColman

In the summer of 1992, I was in a rather nasty car accident. It left me with a jaw broken in several places, a few missing teeth, lacerations along one arm, and...

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