AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — Sandy Davis Kirk woke at 5 a.m. on July 4 to a roaring sound outside her window. “I heard people shrieking from the waters,” said Davis Kirk, whose backyard is bordered by the ...

Severe flooding hit Camp Mystic, a 99-year-old private nondenominational Christian camp for girls in the Texas Hill Country. More than 750 girls were at the camp, which is located along the Guadalupe ...

Once or twice a month, Bernard McGinn receives an email from someone wanting to talk about their “special” experience. Many pose questions like, “How do I know if I’ve really had a mystical encounter ...

An Anthropocentric-Christocentric Mystagogy. A Study of the Method and basic Horizon of Thought and Experience in the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. (University of Münster Offset, ...

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What are we to make of the variety of spiritual experiences? Michael Hughes was 22 years old when he had a mystical experience at a Maryland Catholic church. “It was almost as if I had wandered into ...

(RNS) — ‘Studying the mystics can help us learn to mine the depths of ourselves and learn how to discern what we trust within ourselves,’ said Shannon Evans of her new book based on the lives of ...