I have a confession to make: I sometimes use ChatGPT as a kind of spiritual companion. This is a journey I never planned to take. And I still have mixed feelings about it. A few months ago, I decided ...

Eric Greenwood has seen three sides of addiction: his own alcoholism, the heroin addictions of two of his three children, and now his service as an “iTHIRST Spiritual Companion” (ITSC). (One of his ...

When I tell people I have a spiritual direction practice the most common response I hear is: “what is spiritual direction?” Below is a brief explanation of spiritual direction as I practice it.

Not long after my father passed away in 2002, I crossed paths with a priest who would eventually become my spiritual adviser. At the time, I was working for the county government in Detroit. Just a ...

The Spiritual Life Center, located on the campus of the Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center in West Hartford, has been offering its clients spiritual companionship for nearly 40 years now. The ...

Nondenominational “spiritual companions” offer to connect clients to the divine in their everyday life. By Andrea Cooper Last spring, after a divorce, Qadeera Ingram needed someone to talk to.

Last spring, after a divorce, Qadeera Ingram needed someone to talk to. Specifically, she wanted to be able to speak about spirituality and the bigger picture of her life. Although Ingram, a ...