Center for Spiritual Imagination

12/02/2025

A quiet movement is emerging, one contemplative at a time, and God knows the world needs this kind of presence.
To sustain this work we rely mostly on donations and grants. By 2030 we hope that one-third of our budget will come from our own community. We want to show that a contemplative community can thrive with integrity.
If this work speaks to you, we invite you to support us this Giving Tuesday. Your generosity keeps our programs accessible and helps this community continue to grow in the right way, at the right pace, for the sake of real lives.

09/08/2025

This week our Vowed New Monastics led a contemplative retreat for seminarians and students as part of our collaboration with Cathedral College in New York and Codrington College in Barbados. The retreat included:
🙏🏼 Teaching and practice of Contemplative Prayer and its relationship to priestly vocations
⛪️ The Daily Office at Codrington Chapel
🌺Experiential contemplative encounters at Harrison Cave, Andromeda Botanical Garden, and Codrington’s “Forest Cathedral”
📖 Lectio Divina practice at the fishing pier with Matthew 4:19
🌓 Nightly Examen

08/22/2025

🙏 Experiment with Imagination and Improvisation in Prayer
🎺 Explore Sound and Silence in Meditation
🍽 Share in a Silent Lunch and a Jazz Eucharist


Suggested donation $40 (includes lunch)
All proceeds go to our musicians, our host church, and the Center for Spiritual Imagination

Led by:
Fr. Adam Bucko
Guesnerth Josue Perea
Kristin Vieira Coleman

Music Director: Alex Nguyen
Preaching & presiding: the Rev. Ben DeHart

06/13/2025

Join the Center for Spiritual Imagination and mark time in your week to notice your inner life as it moves between personal and archetypal experience. Deepen your understanding of your dream life and the sacred world within your Self. Led by a vowed member of the Community of the Incarnation who is a trained and practicing Jungian analyst. 

Our capacity for this group is limited to 7 people. You must commit to attending all sessions (see dates below). No prior experience is necessary and all are welcome to apply—even if you “don’t dream.”

Apply before June 20th here: https://anfz4rifmpi.typeform.com/to/QcWDCMw6?typeform-source=www.spiritualimagination.org

You will be notified of your acceptance on Monday June 23.

Dates:
June 26, July 3, 17, and 31, August 14, 21 and 28, 7pm to 8:30pm ET

02/07/2025

Novices in their Carmelite year visited Redemptorist Renewal Center to experience desert spirituality. We were delighted to have urban hermits Tessa Bielecki and Fr. Dave Denny of lead us into the desert of our hearts.

01/20/2025

“Of course, the story [John 2:1-11] isn’t about wine. It’s about hope—hope that doesn’t just help us get by – but hope that allows us to thrive: lifting us when the weight of the world feels unbearable. Enlivening us, when we fear the end is near.
Dr. King described this as ‘the buoyancy of hope.’ Not a shallow optimism, but something substantial, rooted in God who can transform despair into joy and scarcity into abundance.” Read the full post on our Substack at spiritualimagination.substack.com

01/14/2025

If there’s one part of our community’s Rule of Life that surprises people the most, it’s probably this one: Adopt the Twelve Steps as a method of conversion of life, specifically by working the steps in a small group. It doesn’t surprise people who have worked the steps, of course—they know the spiritual value of the practice. But most people assume the steps are only for people with serious addictions. What do the steps have to do with living a contemplative life? Learn more and register for this community event at the link in our bio.

11/19/2024

Join our Franciscan Year novices as we meditate on Scripture, listening with the ear of our hearts to the word of God. We will share our own experience of the text with mutual respect and a desire for holy conversation. Register for free at our website.

11/18/2024

“Both J. Dilla and Brother Lawrence found extraordinary depth in the ordinary, crafting something unique and imaginative from their everyday lives. I began to ponder: Do I seek God in the mundane? Do I recognize my daily life as a sacred space where the Divine can work within me to create something inventive? Or do I primarily look for extraordinary experiences to fulfill that purpose?” Read the full article by Guesnerth Josue Perea by visiting our website.

11/15/2024

“GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The Community of the Incarnation, one of the fastest-growing religious communities in the Anglican Communion, celebrated the solemn vows of its first cohort of new monastics, marking a significant milestone in its growth and ministry. Founded at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York, the Community now serves people across North America and beyond, bringing a fresh expression of monasticism to today’s world.”

Center for Spiritual Imagination

11/07/2024

“Theologians remind us that “The Kingdom of God” is central to Jesus’ message in the Gospels. This Kingdom has spiritual, social, and even political dimensions. It is both a present reality and a future hope. It begins when we uncover the original love within our hearts and put it into action. This opens our eyes to see the world through Christ’s eyes. It empowers us to question business as usual and challenge our own complicities in systems that degrade human dignity. It calls us to work for a new kind of world—a world where humility, servanthood, and compassion, where sharing in each other’s pain and joy, are key characteristics.“ Read the full article on our website.

11/06/2024

Our community invites you to join us in prayers for our nation and contemplative silence this evening. All are welcome.