Is there a bigger story to be found behind the sense of decline felt by some faith traditions? What positive visions of the future could we find in place of those anxieties? Post-evangelical poet David Benjamin Blower and Passionist Catholic priest Nicholas Postlethwaite talk about the narratives of decline in the traditions they grew up with, the idea of giving away your 'treasures' without asking for membership, and how to take up the roles of undertaker and midwife: not only allowing change to happen, but taking part in ushering it in to the world.
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S1 E2: Old Decline and New Growth
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S1 E2: Old Decline and New Growth
Is there a bigger story to be found behind the sense of decline felt by some faith traditions? What positive visions of the future could we find in place of those anxieties?
Jul 12, 2021
Common Era: Spirituality in an Age of Change
What does our current era of change mean for the future of spiritual communities? What are the questions and challenges facing us in terms of belonging, justice, ecology and beyond? Common Era brings two guests around our table to talk about spirituality in an age of change.
Common Era is produced by Lab/ora Press, an independent publisher run by the Catholic monastic order known as the Passionists. To find out more about either of those, you can go to https://labora.press or https://passionists.org.uk
What does our current era of change mean for the future of spiritual communities? What are the questions and challenges facing us in terms of belonging, justice, ecology and beyond? Common Era brings two guests around our table to talk about spirituality in an age of change.
Common Era is produced by Lab/ora Press, an independent publisher run by the Catholic monastic order known as the Passionists. To find out more about either of those, you can go to https://labora.press or https://passionists.org.ukListen on
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