Articles about Online Spirituality
• Getting Started with a Zoom Prayer or Meditation Group
A few suggestions for some simple ways to get going on Zoom and move a group online.
• Contemplative Presence in the Digital Realm: How to Create Sacred Space in Online Contexts
How can real spiritual community be created using virtual means?
• Online Spiritual Encounter
Advantages, disadvantages and basic tips on using video services such as Zoom or Skype for centering prayer, spiritual direction, and other spiritual encounters.
• The Spirit Leads Us Onward, Via Zoom
How Zoom is changing contemplative prayer community.
• Online Group Spiritual Direction Format
• Zoom Tips for Centering Prayer Facilitators
Twenty five minute video of suggestions from a workshop for facilitators, February 13, 2021.
ONLINE PRAYER RESOURCES
Richard Rohr’s Daily Email Meditations.
I begin my day with Richard Rohr's short, free, daily email reflections on contemplative spirituality. A Franciscan monk, Rohr has a deep appreciation of the spirituality of other religions and is very good at discussing with sensitivity and balance the ways in which Christians have gone off course and suggesting how Christian scripture and theology can be interpreted with intelligence, tolerance, simplicity, and love.
The Meditation Chapel offers a wide array of online centering prayer and other spirituality groups by Zoom.
Contemplative Outreach website
Contemplative Outreach is a spiritual network of individuals and small faith communities committed to living the contemplative dimension of the gospel. Their website is a great source of infor- mation about centering prayer and other contemplative prayer groups, centering prayer introductions, retreats, online groups, and videos.
12-Step Outreach
Centering prayer can be used by those in twelve-step programs as an eleventh-step practice and is so well suited to this purpose that it may feel like a kind of missing link for those in the twelve-step movement who have been searching for a way to deepen their relationship with God through prayer and meditation. Contemplative Outreach has developed a number of ways of offering centering prayer to people in twelve-step fellowships. The 12-Step Outreach website offers numerous resources on centering prayer as an eleventh step practice.
Six Continuing Sessions of the Introduction to the Centering Prayer Practice
This series of six half-hour videos by Thomas Keating makes a great introduction to centering prayer and could be used as the basis for a video discussion group.
Centering Prayer Mobile App
This free app includes an adjustable timer, opening and closing prayer options that may be read before and after centering prayer, an assortment of bell sounds, and brief instructions for centering prayer.
Steven Charleston Facebook Page
Steven Charleston is a Native American elder, author, and retired Episcopal bishop of Alaska who offers beautiful daily reflections on Facebook that we often use for lectio divina readings.
The Lectionary Page
The Lectionary provides weekly and sometimes daily verses of scripture that will be read in church that week for those who would like to coordinate their lectio divina readings with the church cal- endar. Readings are often a bit long for lectio divina but may be abridged.
Mission Saint Clare
The Mission of St. Clare is an ecumenical website offering Morning and Evening Prayer using the order set out in The Book of Common Prayer, in live and recorded formats, and as an app.
Pray-as-you-go.org
These short daily podcasts include spiritual music, scripture passages, and suggestions for how to reflect upon the passages.