About This Site

This space is for exploring deeper communion with God.

It’s about moving beyond prayer as conscious mental dialogue alone, toward an all of life friendship with the Father of our being. Toward ceaseless prayer and a more ancient faith. Toward beholding.

It’s also the home of the Society of Burning Hearts, a charismatic-contemplative community learning to foster an ancient-now understanding of prophecy and the prophetic ministry. Through this channel I teach, lead cohorts, foster community and host conversations with leading voices on the role of the prophet in our time.

My posts as Commoners Communion here are free, Burning Hearts is a paid-subscriber only experience.

If you’d like to know about my other work - my prayer books, podcasts, non-fictions, in person schools and events - visit my website or check out the Centre For Communion.

If you’re looking for a more enriching Christian spirituality, a greater awareness of God in your ordinary living, a beholding life, then here I hope you’ll find the tools and inspiration to do it.

Consider yourself invited to the journey.

Much love,
Strahan.

About The Author

Strahan is a writer, award winning folk musician and spiritual director from Aotearoa, New Zealand. He founded Commoners Communion in 2017 to explore what it means to become a deeply prayerful people in our times. Since then, he has written three prayer books - Prayer Vol. 01, 02 & 03 that offer poetic prayers, contemplations and reflections that help the reader deepen their own communion with the God of their hearts. 

His work has been featured in the Bridgetown Daily Podcast, Ekstasis Magazine and his poem Never Alone from Prayer Vol. 01 was performed by Amanda Cook and the Cageless Birds during a live worship and prayer recording in 2020.

Strahan’s work helps people to grow a deep friendship with God, seeing prayer as far more than conscious mental dialogue but as way of existing with God in our every day ordinary lives. His prayers and poems are invitations toward an honest, rested and open life lived in the Spirit and his dialogue around how we can incorporate ancient prayer forms into our modern lives has helped give language to a generation longing for a deeper living experience of God.

His music has been described as psalmic, ‘[making] the tension between heaven and earth that much more palpable’. His music has featured Josh Garrels and John Mark McMillan and his debut album Posters won New Zealand’s Gospel Album of The Year Award as well as being named in The Gospel Coalition’s ‘Best Christian Albums of the 2010’s’.

Today he runs spiritual retreats and prayer schools that both teach and embody a more charismatic-contemplative life. He is the host of the Beholding Prayer Podcast, and author of two published non-fictions on prayer - Beholding which tells his story of moving from a working relationship with God to a friendship, and Thirsting an invitation to experience desire and the love of God in the very depths of our being.

When he’s not doing all that you’ll find him drinking cold brew coffee on the shores of Tairua beach with his wife and three sons where he lives.

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