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Teaching Centering Prayer to the Incarcerated
Dennis McCain (’15) interviews Prison Contemplative Fellowship founder Ray Leonardini. Dennis: Tell us how the call to serve in prisons began for you. Ray: Some time ago I read something by Thomas Merton that stung me. He said, in effect, to nourish a contemplative lifestyle one needed to pursue a “seeming aimless leisure, and a thoughtlessness of time.” From my routine, task-oriented world view, I took it… Continue Reading Teaching Centering Prayer to the Incarcerated