This year's Lenten series for Holy Everything is focused on spiritual practices. Today we begin with our first of eight spiritual practices: spiritual direction. Spiritual direction is time and space ...

Recognizing God’s work in your life usually requires a guide. I suddenly realized I had traveled a very long way. The trip to see a spiritual director for the first time was further than the 12 miles ...

Therese Taylor-Stinson is the managing member of the Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd., which she founded in 2008. The group has produced three books: Embodied Spirits, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody ...

Nondenominational “spiritual companions” offer to connect clients to the divine in their everyday life. By Andrea Cooper Last spring, after a divorce, Qadeera Ingram needed someone to talk to.

Something unusual began happening to Ann Dean about 10 years ago. With increasing frequency, people were approaching the Potomac resident, who was a deacon at her Baptist church in Rockville, to help ...

A few years ago, Casper ter Kuile sat across from a woman and told her he did not want to pray on his knees. She suggested, instead, that he try standing up, with his hands open, in the position used ...

I suddenly realized I had traveled a very long way. The trip to see a spiritual director for the first time was further than the 12 miles from my local Evangelical Free Church to the home of a ...