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  • Mysterious Ways

    What Makes a Modern Mystic?

    Mar 24, 2020 3 minutes
    By Rick Hamlin

    SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

    I recently attended our church’s annual Quiet Day, during which we’d spend most of a Saturday sitting in silence, focusing on prayers and tuning out the noise of modern-day life to tune into God.

    The whole thing reminded me of what mystics did in past eras. People who lived in the Middle Ages, say, or in Jesus’ time. Saints and figures from the Bible. You wouldn’t find them hunched over a computer like me—an ordinary dad, editor, writer and spiritual seeker. Or as the leader of a church prayer

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