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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!
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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…
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Sacred Attention | A Conversation with Cole Arthur Riley
“contemplation for me is a certain commitment to paying attention to the Divine in all things… Mysticism, I think it’s kind of a fidelity to magic and mystery…”
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Recent Publications: Blessings & Reflections
This beautiful compilation of blessings from enflshed was a powerful project to be a part of. You can order this incredible book of blessings, “HELD: blessings for the depths” here. (Note: The first run of the book sold out and this is a pre-order for the second run). You can read the blessing I contributed…
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Speaking Down Barriers | A Conversation with Poet Davelyn Hill
Transcript: DAVELYN HALL: I don’t think I can say that I am a mystic without being connected to community. So I can’t say that for me. I need to be connected to community in order to be a mystic, how do you not? Cassidy Hall: Welcome to Contemplating Now, a podcast about the intersection of contemplation and…
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Time, Tenderness, and Terror: Reflections from a Hospital Chaplain
the presence of personhood and accompaniment is an offering beyond words. The statue of immovable presence and peace amid unfathomable loss is at best a sentiment.
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Fresh Courage: A Conversation with Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown
Dr. Lerita Coleman Brown has retired as Distinguished Professor Emerita of Psychology at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA. Now, in addition to her academic work, she has pursued a life in ministry, becoming a spiritual director and leading workshops and prayer groups promoting contemplative spiritual practices and the life and work of Howard Thurman. More than 25 years ago,…
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New Podcast: Contemplating Now
NEW PODCAST ALERT 🚨 Contemplation has been a part of my life since I was a child taking long walks to pause and process. In 2011, after reading Thomas Merton’s New Seeds of Contemplation, I quit my job and traveled to all 17 Trappist monasteries in the United States. But as I journeyed, I sensed…
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One Leaf: An End of Year Blessing
Wherever you are at the end of this year, maybe you need to stay, maybe you need to let go, but I urge you to carry forth the resilience you have proven. I ask that you remember the grief you have waded and the awakenings you have come to know.
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“Now I will Disappear”
The fullness of liberation lies with the fullness of voices. And so long as I participate in perpetuating the domination of cis-white-male voices in spiritual leadership, I perpetuate slower movement toward the fullness of liberation for all people (shoutout to Womanist methodology).
Dr. Cassidy Hall, DMin, MDiv, MTS, MA 