What is Sacred Today?

Sacred Today is a contemporary spiritual formation practice rooted in historic Christian spirituality that helps people notice and respond to God's invitations in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

The Beginning

“Two years ago I took a photograph of a stone arch at a monastery in Catalonia whose name means God's Stairway. I did not know it would become the logo of spiritual formation practice that did not yet exist.” - Dr. Eric Boyd, Founder

Sacred Today emerged from a growing conviction that God is already present and actively seeking a deeper relationship with us in the ordinary moments we walk through each day in our spiritual journey.

Through contemplative practices of noticing and discerning, we learn to recognize and understand how ordinary moments become sacred by helping us understand our present relationship with God and how we are being invited to deepen that relationship.

Sacred Today welcomes the ordinary experiences of every part of life. Whether your experience comes from parenting, marriage, work, leadership, friendship, caregiving, study, or recreation, we believe God can use those moments to awaken awareness of your relationship with him and invite you to deepen it..

What Makes Sacred Today Different?

.ROOTED IN THE EVERYDAY

View ordinary moments as places of relational encounter with God.

FOCUSED ON FORMATION

Spiritual life is a living relationship with God who invites us everyday to deepen that relationship.

GROUNDED IN BREATH PRAYERS

Advocate breath prayers as a simple way of aligning our hearts with God’s invitation.

GROUNDED IN ACCOMPANIMENT

Shaped by our own formation, we learn to accompany others on their formation journey.

Dr. Eric Boyd

Meet the Founder

Dr. Boyd is a professor, leadership coach, and nonprofit leader with a deep commitment to discerning God’s invitations to a deeper relationship and helping others do the same.

With experience in higher education, leadership development, and leadership coaching he created Sacred Today as a spiritual formation practice rooted in the conviction that God is already inviting us to a deeper relaitonship in the ordinary moments of our daily lives.

Sacred Today emerged from his own spiritual journey and formal study in spiritual direction toward learning to see the sacred in our daily lives.

“My deepest hope is that that this practice becomes a way to be closer to the God that is already here in you, for you and with you.” Dr. Eric Boyd, Sacred Today Founder

What Shapes Sacred Today Practice?

EXPERIENCE

  • Award-winning teacher

  • Leadership coach

  • Non-profit founder

  • Published writer

  • International scholar

  • Experienced pilgrim

TRAINING

  • PhD in marketing (University of Virginia)

  • ACC-Certified leadership coach (ICF)

  • Certified meditation instructor (UCF)

  • Certified in Prayer, Mediation and Mindfulness (Yale Divinity School)

  • Spiritual director in-training (Luther Theological Southern Seminary)

SPIRITUALITY

  • God is already lovingly present in the moments of our everyday lifes.

  • An ordinary moment reveals the current state of our relationship with God.

  • That awareness invites a response that aligns our heart with the invitation.

  • The response deepens our relationship with God.