Together in Prayer: The Art and Gift of Group Spiritual Direction

Speaker(s): Susan Phillips
Date: July 16 2014
Length: 67min
Product ID: RGDL4400R

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Susan Phillips defines group spiritual direction as a communal Christian practice of contemplative prayer. Phillips speaks about her experiences and history in the discipline of group spiritual direction, giving examples of how it is a means of spiritual development.

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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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