Events & Courses

Join us each week for a 30 minute practice of meditation and contemplative prayer led by our vowed New Monastic members. Click below for more info and details on how to join us online.

Join us online Tuesday, December 2 at 7:30 PM for a special Jazz Meditation with pianist and theologian Julian Davis Reid, featuring his new album Vocation. Presented in collaboration with Awakenings and Black Lives & Contemplation.

Find stillness and discover new meanings with ‘Meditation is a Must’, a musical meditation practice that uniquely blends contemplative practices with the profound lyricism of Hip Hop.

Explore the depths and variety of contemplative spirituality in our monthly meditative sessions, designed to guide us in contemplative practices that center BIPOC wisdom and lived experience. These gatherings remain open and welcoming to everyone while creating a space for BIPOC individuals.

Join the Center for Spiritual Imagination in the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, or holy reading.

Each week, our New Monastic Community will lead a teaching on Lectio Divina (7:30pm-8pm), followed by an interactive practice (8pm-9pm). You are welcome to join for just the teaching, just the practice, or both.

This class delves into the rich contemplative traditions of the Black Diaspora, encompassing practices and influential figures from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America. Participants will draw on global wisdom to broaden their knowledge of contemplation.

Explore the foundational prayer method of our community that welcomes our whole being into relationship with God. Each session, we will focus on a different aspect of this method of prayer.

Monasticism has always been a response to the deep human longing for God. From the desert fathers and mothers of Egypt and Palestine to the monasteries of Europe, it has shaped lives of prayer, simplicity, and service for centuries. But this course isn’t about the monasticism of the past—it’s about new expressions of monasticism emerging today, rooted in the same longing but responding to the unique challenges and possibilities of our time.