Even though it’s several years old, I highly recommend this Financial Times profile of Laurence Freeman, founder of the World Community for Christian Meditation, and his effort to modernize and publicize

Christianity’s almost hidden meditative tradition. The practice dates back almost 2,000 years to the Desert Fathers and Mothers, a fairly anarchic monastic movement that flourished in northern Egypt and Palestine, and through to modern Christian contemplatives such as Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and author of the bestselling autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), and Benedictine sages such as John Main (1926-1982), who reinvigorated the meditative tradition now carried on by his mentee, Freeman.

Another person whose work I have to read more closely….