Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Direction Links

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Spiritual Direction Personal guidance according to individual needs. Criticizes excesses at both ends of the spectrum: heavyhanded directors, and people who think that since they have the Holy Spirit they have no need of human help.
  
• A Selective Bibliography on Spiritual Direction and Discernment Courtesy of the Reformed Church in America.
  
• Spiritual Direction Online version of the Shalem Institute's pamphlet on the process of spiritual direction. Basic information for those who wonder whether spiritual direction is for them.
  
• Spiritual Direction Short essay by Thomas Keating. How can spiritual direction help, and what are its limits?
  
• Spiritual Direction as Choosing Life An interview with Presbyterian minister Jeffrey S. Gaines. Half of the article is devoted to explaining what spiritual direction is. People with smaller monitors will have to scroll horizontally.
  
• Spiritual Formation Short essays by Carl McColman about spiritual direction and contemplative prayer. Especially helpful for someone who feels drawn by God to a simpler way of prayer.
  
• Spiritual Direction: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again) Baptist pastor Rowland Croucher suggests that any Christian could find spiritual direction a great help in drawing closer to God.
  
• Pneuma Lutheran (ELCIC) online newsletter about the ministry of spiritual direction.
  
• Spiritual Direction An introduction, from the Canadian Anglican Cursillo Movement.
  
• Spiritual Direction Advice on what qualities to look for in a potential spiritual director. This article is not aimed exclusively at Christians.