Ohio Illuman is entering a new chapter of growth and clarity. By transitioning key administrative tasks to Illuman, Inc., we’re freeing our community to focus on spiritual formation, leadership renewal, and deeper connection. Learn how these changes will support our mission and invite more men into meaningful service.

Growing to adulthood, I accepted values that shaped my image of myself. With my two brothers and two sisters, I learned standard prayers, studying hard, working together, playing fair and being generous. That all seemed ordinary and natural, and I was happy and satisfied to act like that and be affirmed and counted on by others as being like that…

A while ago in one of Father Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditations, he referenced a book entitled The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance by Dorothee Soelle. The title appealed to me and I purchased a copy, read it, studied it, and read it again. Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003) was a remarkable human being. She was a social activist, a theologian, and an erstwhile professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. And, oh, yes, she was a mystic! READ MORE