Exploring Contemplation + Mysticism Through a Queer Lens
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Love Sees That There’s No Such Thing as a Little Thing
“How great it is to be faithful to a little thing,” I remember contemplative psychotherapist Jim Finley reminding me when my phone again randomly selected a track on a walk earlier in the day: “It’s not measurable. Read more
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The Truth Takes Care of Us
The very indication of what it means to live a contemplative life is “to have faith that our own heart in its most childlike hour did not deceive us.” Read more
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Upcoming Events
You’re invited: Three upcoming events in September and October – September 16, September 23, and October 10th. Read more
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My Whole Life is Queer: An Interview with Rev. Kittredge Cherry
A portion of this interview will be included in my forthcoming book, Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality. Read more
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Queering Contemplation is Now Available for Pre-Order!
What would it mean to queer contemplation? Queering Contemplation now available for pre-order! Read more
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Awakening Mysticism with the Scholarship of Three African American Women
Both the mystic and the activist pursue lives disentangled from institutions, lives that pursue communal well-being… Read more
What would it mean to queer contemplation? To disentangle contemplative spirituality from heteronormativity, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity, and instead engage with openness, curiosity, and a little weirdness?
Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality
Contemplation
Contemplation as a daily practice of reflection + action.
Mysticism
Mysticism as an accessible encounter of interconnection to self + others + the Divine.
Activism
Social Justice activism as the pursuit of love + liberation for all.
“Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious people are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves…”
— Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Cassidy Hall, MA, MDiv, MTS 