The Monastic Way

During this sermon we travel with 3 key questions that monasticism started to live with, has continued to live with and which remain relevant for us today: What do we do about God – how might we give ourselves fully and deeply to the beauty and mystery of God? What do we do about our conflicted selves, particularly our distracted thoughts and emotions? How might we live well in this world/culture? Put another way its about facing God, facing ourselves and facing the world. Along the way I hope to indicate some of the shapes that monasticism has taken in response to these questions, and point to some of the people and key scriptures that have informed these shapes.