An artist I know was recently advised by a woman at his local parish that the new thing these days is “mindfulness”. He should start to develop Christian art around that theme, she suggested. He wasn’t enthused by the idea. But the woman was raising an interesting point. Mindfulness is taking off in the churches and in popular culture, and in the corporate and business world as well.

Mindfulness was one of the great gifts I received through many years of Zen training.