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• An Introductory series of meditation exercises
  • Set 1 – Beginners’ Exercises
    • Exercise 1
    • Exercise 10
    • Exercise 11
    • Exercise 2
    • Exercise 3
    • Exercise 4
    • Exercise 5
    • Exercise 6
    • Exercise 7
    • Exercise 8
    • Exercise 9
  • Set 2 – The Practice
    • Exercise 12
    • Exercise 13
    • Exercise 14
    • Exercise 15
    • Exercise 16
    • Exercise 17
    • Exercise 18
    • Exercise 19
  • Set 3 – Exploring Jesus’ Life
    • Exercise 20
    • Exercise 21
    • Exercise 22
    • Exercise 23
    • Exercise 24
    • Exercise 25
    • Exercise 26
    • Exercise 27
    • Exercise 28
    • Exercise 29
    • Exercise 30
    • Exercise 31
    • Exercise 32
  • Set 4 – God and the Cosmos
    • Exercise 33
    • Exercise 34
    • Exercise 35
    • Exercise 36
    • Exercise 37
    • Exercise 38
    • Exercise 39
    • Exercise 40
    • Exercise 41
    • Exercise 42
• Coming Soon!
• Enneagram Intro
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      • Enneagram EIGHT Spiritual Practices
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      • Enneagram SEVEN Spiritual Practices
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      • Enneagram SIX Spiritual Practices
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• Powerpoint presentations
  • Awareness Examen slide show
  • But I don’t have time slide show
  • Gospel Contemplation slide show
  • Lectio Divina slide show
• Stages of Becoming Christ
  • Dynamic: Being a Christian as “Journey”
  • Dynamic: Phase 1 Exploring Christianity – Awakening
  • Dynamic: Phase 2: Growing in Christ – Interest
  • Dynamic: Phase 3: Becoming Close to Christ – Discipleship
  • Dynamic: Phase 4: Becoming Christ-centred – Apostleship
  • Static: Being a Christian as a “state”
• To rebalance our understanding of life
• Welcome to Christian Spiritual Practices
  • A Guide for Seekers
    • Do I have to leave my church if I am a seeker?
    • How do seekers happen (developmental theory)?
    • How do you know when you are a seeker?
    • How to be a responsible seeker
    • Living a seeker life:
    • Living the questions rather than the answers:
    • Seeker beware!
    • The hermeneutic cycle for seekers
    • What is a Seeker?
    • What kind of seeker are you?
  • About Me
  • But I don’t have time!
  • But I’m not sure I believe in very much…
  • How can my ageing become a spiritual practice?
    • A Spirituality of Diminishment
    • Developing a Passion for Life as We Age
    • Moving From “Ageing” to “Sageing”
    • The Second Half of Life
    • The Seven Tasks We Need to Complete Before We Die
  • How Can My Dying Become a Spiritual Practice?
    • Contemporary Reflections on Death
      • A Progressive Christian View of Afterlife
      • A Theology of afterlife according to Diarmuid O’Murchu
      • Eternal Life – John Spong
      • The Other Side of Dying – Morton Kelsey
    • The “gift” of Death
    • The Spiritual Dimensions of Dying
  • Main Resources on this site
    • Rev John Buttars on Prayer
  • Meditating on the “Cosmic Christ”
    • 1. Jesus and “the Christ”
    • 2. The “Christ” as “God’s Manifestation”
    • 3. Approaching the “Christ” from the Universe
    • 4. The “Christ” is in Evolution
    • 5. Christ, the Alpha
    • 6. Christ with Us
    • 7. Christ the Omega
    • 8. The “Cosmic Christ”
    • 9. The Cosmic Christ and the Trinity
  • Meditating on the Cosmos
    • 1. Welcome to the Universe!
    • 10. The Infinitely Small
    • 11. Living on Borrowed Matter
    • 12. God and the Universe
    • 13. Given this Universe, What/Who is God?
    • 2. Size of the Universe
    • 3. Vastness of the Universe
    • 4. Another Approach to the Size of the Universe
    • 5. Age of the Universe
    • 6. Why is the Universe this old and this big?
    • 7. The “Big Bang”
    • 8. This Improbable Universe
    • 9. Evolution – God’s Creating Process
  • Site map
  • Some Content to Meditate on
  • Spiritual Practices in a Time of Covid 19
    • Personal Practices
      • To Control Anxiety
      • To honour our radical co-dependence
      • To offset loneliness
      • To rebalance our understanding of Providence
      • When Covid 19 strikes
  • What’s New?
• What is a Spiritual Practice?
  • Spiritual Practice: Definition Breakdown
    • The Common Christian Practices
      • Beauty
      • Celebration
      • Communal Discernment
      • Confession
      • Discernment (individual)
      • Diversity
      • Dying Well
      • Fasting
      • Forgiveness
      • Honouring the Body
      • Hospitality
      • Household Economics
      • Justice
      • Keeping Sabbath
      • Keeping the Holy Seasons
      • Meditation
        • Forms of Meditation
          • Active Contemplation
            • Active contemplation – 2
          • Awareness Examen
          • Centring Prayer
          • Centring Prayer with Mantra
          • Gospel Contemplation
          • Guided Meditation
          • Journalling
          • Lectio Divina
          • Practice of the Presence of God
          • Praying with Scripture
          • Sitting with Breath
          • The Practice of Lovingkindness
          • The Rosary
          • Tonglen (“Giving and Taking”)
            • Tong len – a set of exercises
          • Vipassana Meditation
          • Walking Meditation
      • Pilgrimage
      • Prayer
      • Service
      • Shaping Communities
      • Simplicity
      • Solitude
      • Study
      • Submission
      • Testimony
      • Worship
    • The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius
• What resources exist to help me?
  • What Resources exist to help me -2?
• What Spiritual Practice is for me?
  • Six Spiritual Traditions
    • Social Justice
    • The charismatic tradition
    • The Contemplative Tradition
    • The Evangelical (Proclamation) Tradition
    • The holiness tradition
    • The Incarnational Tradition
  • Spirituality for Your Personality Type
• Where do I start?
  • Where do I Start -2?
    • A suggested pattern of spiritual practice
      • “Discernment of spirits” – Introduction
        • “Discernment of spirits” – The Inner Experience
          • “Discernment of spirits” – Consolation and Desolation
            • “Discernment of spirits” – Dealing with Desolation – 1
              • “Discernment of spirits”- Dealing with Desolation – 2
                • “Discernment of spirits” – Dealing with Desolation – 3
                  • “Discernment of spirits” – Dealing with Desolation – 4
            • “Discernment of spirits” – Discernment of Consolations – 1
              • “Discernment of spirits” – Dealing with Consolation – 2
      • A “Christification” task
      • Christian formation practice
      • Close of day – Awareness Examen
      • Foundational practice:
      • Practices during stress and anxiety
      • Waking: rededication and intentionality prayer
    • Harcourt Covenanted Companions – 2016
• Why are Spiritual Practices important?
  • Spiritual Training