Opening Minds and Hearts in the Midwest
Cultivating Cultural and Intellectual Humility Through Contemplative Practices
Peggy Beatty
Peggy is the spiritual director of Ecumenicus, an interfaith non-profit focused on contemplative meditation. Peggy has offered spiritual companioning, contemplative practices and mindfulness meditation in Kansas City and Lawrence, KS for 12 years. She studied mysticism and psychology of contemplative prayer at Central Baptist Theological Seminary as well as Contemplative Studies and Spiritual Direction at Mt. St. Scholastica in Atchison, KS. Email Peggy or follow Ecumenicus on Facebook.
Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa (Kką:ze) Native Americans who lived along its banks. The name is often said to mean people of the south wind. The Free State is home to almost 3 million people now. Nearly 90% of Kansas’s land is devoted to agriculture producing cattle, sheep, wheat, sorghum, soybeans, cotton, hogs, corn, and salt.
