AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION + COMPANIONSHIP

Vol.

30

No.

02

June – 2024

In This Issue

“We reveal the poetry of the eternal together. We can feel it in the wind and the rain, the warmth of the sun, and the sky and stars up above. We speak it in our prayers and chants, and swim in it through our rituals and invocations.”

Articles

Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

On a good morning, language drains from my head into fingers. My heart stills. The room pulses. Silence saturates the hours like water in soil. I am present, more so than at any other moment, and words rise like grass. Unlike on an ordinary morning when, agonizing, each sentence is a strain. The grammar’s sloppy, my sentences vacuous, I trip over words, fall flat, then hit delete.

Focus

Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares

I recently had the opportunity to attend an event with the esteemed Chinese to English translator Bill Porter, aka “Red Pine,” preeminent in his field for his renderings of classical Chinese texts and poetry into English over the last 40 years.

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Reviews

by Valerie Brown, Marisela B. Gomez, MD, and Kaira Jewel Lingo

Reviewed by Karen Erlichman, DMin, LCSW

by Christine Valters Paintner

Reviewed by Monique CM Keffer, MA

by Mara Lief Crabtree

Reviewed by Reverend Dr. Stephanie Bussey-Spencer Patton

by Sarah Anderson

Reviewed by Kathryn Madden, rc

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AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION + COMPANIONSHIP

Publisher: 
Spiritual Directors International

Executive Director & Editor-in-Chief: 
Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares, MTS

Editorial Coordinator:
Seicho Sydney Roth

Media Review Editor: 
Pegge Erkeneff

Poetry Editor: 
Jennifer (Jinks) Hoffmann

Art Editor:
Matt Whitney

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Tobias Becker

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Founding Editor: 
Susan S. Jorgensen, MA

Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction is published in March, June, September, and December. Presence offers a forum among diverse people and spiritual traditions for the exploration of present and future trends in the art and ministry of spiritual direction. Presence is grounded in the belief that our deepest calling is to be present to one another as we share the gift of ourselves. Presence strives to articulate the essential elements of contemplative practices, formation, and training; to encourage accountability; and to develop clear ethical guidelines. Presence supports a global contemplative dialog of spiritual care and compassion for others, ourselves, and the whole cosmos. ISSN 1081-7662.

Opinions expressed in this journal are the opinions of the authors and advertisers and may not represent the opinions of Spiritual Directors International, the coordinating council, or the editors. All biblical quotations are from the NRSV unless otherwise noted.

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