Retrieving the Ancient Practice of Spiritual Direction in an Age of Self-Help

Speaker(s): Susan Phillips
Date: Summer 2017
Length: 1h 20m
Product ID: RGDL4702V

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Over the course of the past several decades the North American Protestant church has been taking up and shaping the practice of Christian spiritual direction, a practice which flourished centuries ago in intentional religious communities. In our culture of emaciated community, spiritual direction offers companionship; in a time of fierce materialism, the practice focuses on the experience of faith; and in a climate of busyness and anxiety, the art of spiritual direction fosters contemplation. Our spiritual lives do not have to be wholly private, unexamined, and fueled by autonomous striving.

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Susan S. Phillips is Executive Director and Professor of Christianity and Sociology at New College Berkeley (an affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union in California). Susan is keenly interested in how engaging the caring practices will shape us spiritually. She is a certified spiritual director (Mercy Center, Burlingame, California) and has practised spiritual direction since the early 1990s. She edited (with Patricia Benner) The Crisis of Care and her most recent book is Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction.

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