elcome to Rogers McKay, a website for spiritual seekers of all faith traditions developed by psychotherapist-author Meredith Jordan and Rogers McKay Publishing. We offer this site as a means to explore with a wide community of seekers our belief that every individual has an indwelling gnosis (or knowing) for “right use of our lives” encoded deep in our souls and a spiritual  mandate to embody that wisdom for the good of all who share this remarkable period of history with us.

Rogers McKay was originally founded in 1996 as a non-profit, interfaith educational organization. At that time, our purpose was to facilitate groups and retreats for people wanting to develop or deepen a spiritual life. Over a period of eight years, we offered such innovative programs as Deepening in the Spirit, Building Our Spirits to be Strong, Gateway to the Soul, Into Whose Hands Do I Commend My Spirit, Claiming Our Call, and other contemplative retreats for churches, schools and community groups.

In early 2001, we encountered unexpected events that challenged our original goals and caused us to re-visit the “right use” of our own vision for this work. The result of those events was that we voluntarily placed ourselves in a period of discernment, or what we came to call a time of “standing still” in order to listen for our “next instructions.” In this reflective period, Meredith Jordan gathered and began to write stories of her own and others’ lifelong search for spiritual truth.

In 2004, Rogers McKay published Embracing the Mystery: the Sacred Unfolding in Ordinary People and Everyday Lives, the first of Meredith’s reflective essays on the spiritual journey. That decision signaled a commitment to reach out to ordinary people who are wrestling with the difficult questions and challenges inherent in living a life centered in Spirit. Embracing the Mystery has reached an ever-growing audience of enthusiastic readers and been excerpted on Beliefnet.com (the world’s largest spiritual website) and in magazines and periodicals across the United States and Canada, such as Edge Life Review, Presence, Sacred Journey, Spirit in the Smokies, The International Journal of Healing, The Center for Progressive Christianity, Inner Tapestry, and several journals devoted to care of the dying.

In 2006, we are happy to announce the publication of Meredith Jordan’s second book of essays on the spiritual journey. Standing Still: Hearing the Call to a Spirit-Centered Life calls readers into conscious cooperation with those inevitable times when life conspires to slow us down for a period of time, invites us to wait in the quiet, and challenges us to listen patiently until wisdom born of the Indwelling Mystery lifts out of the inner stillness to provide guidance (or “instructions”) for our next steps.

As in Embracing the Mystery, Meredith artfully weaves stories from the lives of ordinary seekers with ages-old wisdom from all faith traditions to offer readers a rich experience of Spirit-at-work in both the joyful and catastrophic events of our lives. Through story and insightful observations, she reassures us that the Mystery many people call God is ever present in absolutely everything and everyone we encounter on the path we travel in life.

Both Standing Still and Embracing the Mystery are written to remind us of who we truly are: sons and daughters of the Sacred who matter greatly to the future of the human family and our common destiny. It is our intention that the stories in these thoughtful, often provocative, books will prompt seekers to courageously inhabit the unique, true and wondrous life that is hers—or his—alone to live.

This is an exciting, interactive website, and we invite spiritual seekers from all paths to both explore it in its entirety and to contribute to it.