{"id":7430,"date":"2011-09-30T18:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:07:39","slug":"audio-divina-and-mennonites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/audio-divina-and-mennonites\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Divina and Mennonites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Menno-lite<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mary T Rankin is a spiritual director and retreat leader who currently co-directs <em>Stillpoint at Beckside<\/em> (www.stillpointatbeckside.com), an ecumenical spiritual retreat center in Bellingham, WA. where those seeking to experience the Mystery of God can spend time walking and meditating in their labyrinth. With a background in music therapy (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120828143902\/http:\/\/www.ami-bonnymethod.org:80\/index.asp\">The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music<\/a>), Rankin developed Audio Divina (Sacred Listening) in 2003 while at Vancouver School of Theology. She has since authored \u201cAudio Divina: Introducing a Contemplative Practice for Contemporary Times\u201d (Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery, Vol. 9, 2003-2004), and \u201cAudio Divina: Introducing a Musical Aid for Spiritual Direction\u201d which appeared in the Presence Journal (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120709004307\/http:\/\/sdiworld.org:80\/archives_and_back_issues\/volume-15.html\">Volume 15, June 2009<\/a>), an international journal of SDI (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/spiritualdirection.htm\">Spiritual Directors International<\/a>). Rankin\u2019s Audio Divina is also <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111002235406\/http:\/\/www.sdiworld.org:80\/2007_event\/conference-workshops--presenters\/saturday-evening-activities.html?op=\">listed as a Saturday evening workshop option at SDI<\/a> (among other options such as Dancing the Cosmic Dance, Reiki: A Spiritual Doorway to Natural Healing, Accessing Cosmic Unity with Wordless Song using Nigunim from the Jewish Mystical Tradition, and Coming Home to the Cosmos According to Harry Potter). Audio Divina by Mary Rankin can also be found <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111003191311\/http:\/\/biblio.noetic.org:80\/search.php?formType=quickSearch&amp;originalDisplayType=&amp;sqlQuery=&amp;showQuery=&amp;showLinks=&amp;showRows=5&amp;client=&amp;citeStyle=&amp;citeOrder=&amp;quickSearchSelector=title&amp;quickSearchName=audio+divina\">(here) <\/a>at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Institute_of_Noetic_Sciences\">Institute of Noetic Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does this have to do with Mennonites? <a href=\"http:\/\/mennolite.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/26\/audio-divina-and-mennonites\/\">Click here <\/a>to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Menno-lite Mary T Rankin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":34914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,1,90,2575],"tags":[161,580,740,891,91,115],"class_list":["post-7430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemplative-practices","category-spiritualformation","category-the-role-of-meditation","category-mennonites-churches-in-crisis","tag-lectio-divina","tag-menno-lite","tag-mennonites","tag-spiritual-directors","tag-meditation","tag-contemplative","wpcat-78-id","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-90-id","wpcat-2575-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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