Author name: Kevin Maksym

For some time, I have been pondering becoming an oblate of the World Community for Christian Meditation. I am sure that many of you are oblates, and some for many years. I hope this sense of call is something you can relate to on your own journey. This desire has been in my heart….

In my previous incarnation as a Catholic priest, one of my priest friends whom I love and respect, yet at the same time with whom, I disagree fundamentally on both church and state, would lovingly refer to me as the “hippie peacenik priest.” I took these words as ones of endearment as I have spent much of my life…

I have been thinking extensively about the John Main Seminar. The discussions that flowed out of the contemplative listening sessions were bonding, inspiring and challenging. It has always been my experience, as Fr. John Main prophetically understood, meditation builds community. A member of our gathering remarked to me after the seminar that he has been meditating for 10 years and this was the first time he has meditated in a group.

When I arrived at New Harmony, Indiana for the 2024 John Main Seminar, I quickly checked into my room at the inn hosting this international annual event. This gathering was a little different than past years which would begin with a silent retreat. Of course, during the seminar there were times of silence and certainly periods of meditation, however this year, it was a more interactive time as we learned a new way of listening contemplatively and sharing from a place of silence and stillness. We had a collective desire to open our minds and hearts to hear what God might be calling us to be in these most challenging of times.

Lately I have found myself to be a curmudgeon. That may be the strangest way to describe oneself in a letter, meant to invite people to a deeper reflection on meditation and to delve deeper into the practice of silence, stillness, and simplicity yet lately….

I’ve always heard that in polite company, we shouldn’t talk about religion or politics. It seems this way of avoiding challenging conversations may have been proper etiquette, but this has set us up to fail.

Happy Easter! We did celebrate Easter Sunday a month ago, but many of us are still celebrating the Easter season. As Christians, we are always living the implications of Easter, that God would take such horrific violence as the cross and make it a revolutionary act of nonviolence.

Dear Group Leaders and Friends in Christian Meditation: As Easter draws near, we have been journeying towards Jerusalem as Christian people. This holy time is a reminder that as Christians we have an outer journey of faith we travel as members of the Church. We live as members of a community. Through our baptism, we

Dear Group Leaders and Friends in Christian Meditation,

There is an expression I am sure you have heard many times, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” Sometimes we might be impatient for the teacher to show up, maybe we have followed teachers who have erroneously led us down the wrong

Dear Group Leaders and Friends in Christian Meditation, I’ve been fortunate to be a Christian meditator for a number of years. It came into my life at a challenging moment early in my ministry. Then, as now, it continues to teach me about what it means to be a minister, what it means to be