Resources

The following is a list of organizations which I am involved with and highly recommend:

• St. Andrew’s Episcopal Retreat House, Union, WA www.saintandrewshouse.org

• St. Placid Benedictine Priory, Lacey, WA

• Contemplative Outreach

• Contemplative Outreach Northwest

• Cloud Mountain Buddhist Retreat Center

• Seattle Insight Meditation Center

• South Sound Zen Center, Tacoma, WA

• The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia

• Spiritual Directors International

Here are some apps that I find helpful in the spiritual life:

• Insight Timer - a favorite meditation timer app with thousands of guided meditations.

• Centering Prayer - the official app of Contemplative Outreach.

• Pray As You Go - a terrific app for daily prayer which follows the lectionary and liturgical year.

• Bible Gateway - a Bible search engine with many, many translations.

• ECHO - a neat app for keeping an ongoing intercessory prayer list.

• Day by Day - a beautiful app for praying the Daily Offices from The Book of Common Prayer

Some of my favorite books on the spiritual life:

• Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

• Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ

• Carl McColman, Answering the Contemplative Call

• Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart

• Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

• Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

• Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion

• Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

• John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us

• The Cloud of Unknowing, by an anonymous medieval author

• The Rule of St Benedict

• The Bhagavad Gita

• The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

• The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection