The Art of Embrace Podcast

Grateful Living was founded by the Benedictine monk Br. David Steindl-Rast, a pioneer of interfaith dialogue. Through his time with spiritual leaders like Thich Nhat Hanh, H.H. the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Thomas Merton, Roshi Joan Halifax, Swami Satchidananda and others, he discovered gratefulness as the common thread in all religion. Grateful Living is the outcome of more than 50 years of scholarship and action, and continues Br. David's spiritual innovation.

This collection of vignettes focuses on those projects and communities that are successfully innovative—by which we mean they are: 1) Novel: providing a new concept, context, offering, or pathway for engaging spirituality, while remaining 2) Rooted: growing out of and/or learning from existing spiritual or religious systems or traditions. We believe the best innovations grow out of a specific lineage or context rather than seeking to create ex nihilo, and so in sharing these vignettes, we seek to highlight projects that achieve excellence in both novelty and rootedness.