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A shout out to Evelyn Underhill and her wonderful book

By in Books, Mysticism

Over the next few weeks or so I’ll be posting four new videos on Youtube. One will be an “about me” video, one in which I talk about my three most recent books, one in which I talk about an idea I first presented at the Patheos website on “compass points for the spiritual life,” [...]

Read full story · Comments { 9 } · December 10, 2012

The “Overplus” of Reality

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Indeed that which, beyond all else, spiritual genius never fails to give us, is  this realistic sense of the overplus of Reality; a perfection exceeding in its totality and splendor all possible human apprehension. — Evelyn Underhill, Man and the Supernatural I stumbled across the quotation from Evelyn Underhill the other day in an anthology [...]

Read full story · Comments { 1 } · June 19, 2012

Something of the Leisure of Eternity

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The action of those whose lives are given to the Spirit has in it something of the leisure of Eternity; and because of this, they achieve far more than those whose lives are enslaved by the rush and hurry, the unceasing tick-tick of the world. Otherwise we tend to forget that God, Who is greater [...]

Read full story · Comments { 4 } · May 25, 2012

Something I wrote for Amazon.com

By in Books, Christian mysticism, Mysticism, Writing

Amazon.com offers authors the chance to write something personal about their book(s) to appear on Amazon’s website. This morning I finally wrote such a statement for The Big Book of Christian Mysticism. I thought I may as well post it here, so readers of this blog could enjoy it as well. The following text should [...]

Read full story · Comments { 5 } · July 16, 2011

Dana Greene speaks on Evelyn Underhill

By in Mysticism, Mystics, Writing

Here are a couple of videos, courtesy of the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation, featuring Dana Greene speaking about Evelyn Underhill.

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · July 1, 2011

A Book for All Time

By in Books, Christian mysticism, Mysticism, Mystics

I’ve posted the text of the talk I gave in February at the “Awakening in God’s Love” conference to my website. This conference was sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta’s Institute for Ministry and Theological Education. It was a celebration of the life and work of Anglican writer and contemplative Evelyn Underhill, marking the [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · April 2, 2011

Evelyn Underhill: from Atlanta to the Huffington Post

By in Christian mysticism, Mysticism

Yesterday was the Evelyn Underhill Celebration at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Atlanta. Over sixty people attended; with presentations by Dr. Dana Greene (a leading Underhill scholar) and me, breakout groups doing lectio divina exercises using excerpts from Underhill’s writings, and a lovely Taizé service to close the day, it was truly a mini-retreat. I [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 } · February 20, 2011
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