The Aramaic Prayer of Jesus in “Virus Times”
These are two selections from the meditation and teaching that I shared in the online Desert Flowers group (https://abwoon.org/desert-flowers/) on March 22, 2020. The first is a short commentary on the Aramaic Prayer of Jesus for today (13 min): Aramaic prayer text...Desert Flowers Special Meeting on Zoom This Sunday: March 22, 5 pm UK time
Dear Friends, Our thrice-yearly Desert Flowers online group will meet online via Zoom this Sunday, 22 March at 5 pm UK time ( for reference: 10 am North America West Coast time). I will be sharing a few prayers and practices from the Aramaic Jesus tradition suited for...Audio of Sunday’s Webinar on “Engaged Sufism” now available.
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Free webinar on Saturday, 25 January
I am pleased to be sharing an hour webinar online tomorrow with my esteemed mentor Shaykh Fadhalla Haeri, who has been working on a new translation of and commentary on the Qur’an, as well as new friend Issa Baba. The theme is “What does it mean to be a...
Gibran’s Little Book of Wisdom Released
Government is an agreement between you and me.You and I are often wrong. Fife, Scotland: 2 September 2019 The last of my four “little books” of Kahlil Gibran is now out, this one full of wisdom for daily life–living in community and living alone,...
End of Year Greetings and News for 2019
31 December 2018 Dear Friends of Abwoon, Greetings and blessings of Hogmanay, our end-of-the year celebration here in Scotland. While we are experiencing an unusual run of warm-ish weather (10 C, near 50F to you Americans), the early-fading winter light still draws...
Announcing: The Little Book of Sufi Stories…pre-order now!
Dear Friends of the Abwoon Network, I am happy to announce a new book published by Hampton Roads, due in June of 2018. The Little Book of Sufi Stories retells some of my favorite stories, and a few you haven’t heard before. I am just finishing...
New Beatitudes Chant CD released from world music group ‘Sofia’
2 February 2017 A few years ago, Gospel singer Timothy Frantzich, whom I met at a Robert Bly conference, asked if he could arrange my Beatitude chant melodies for a small choral ensemble. That new creation is now here–a world music collaboration by the group...