New Christian Contemplatives

At St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, people from many religious and spiritual traditions gather on Sunday nights to encounter the divine through stillness, silence, music, meditation, prayer, and ancient liturgies and sacraments. Correspondent Kate Olson talked with worshippers and also with historian and author and speaker Diana Butler Bass about changes in people’s understandings of God and why one-in-two Americans today say they have had a mystical experience.