Online Zoom Forum: New Monasticism: Origins, Values, Practices, Forms, and Expressions.
Date: Wednesday 6 November 2024.
Time: 7pm-9pm (UK time).
Description:
Format: There will be five talks, each of 12 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of discussion among the speakers and the chair, followed by Q & A.
Speakers:
Dr Rory McEntee:
Title: Interspiritual New Monasticism,
Description: I will talk about new monasticism as a spiritual path are lived out "in the world."
Bio: Dr Rory McEntee is President and Executive Director of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism and Interspirituality and author of The New Monasticism.
He was a close student of Brother Wayne Teasdale and Father Thomas Keating, and served as administrator for Fr. Keating's "Snowmass Dialogue Conferences."
Rory has advanced degrees in Theological and Philosophical Studies in Religion and Applied Mathematics.
Dr Bernadette Flanagan:
Title: Celtic and Beguine Inspiration for New Monasticism.
Description: Both in the Irish Monastic tradition and in the Beguine movement we find many innovations in spiritual community led by women.
In a world where there shared spiritual practice is of every greater significance personally, socially and globally, how can a community of spiritual practice be crafted with inspiration from similarly inspired ancestors?
Bio: For 30 years I have led the development of studies in applied spirituality in third level educational settings.
An MA programme in Applied Spirituality and PhD programme in contemporary expressions of the spiritual quest at South East Technological University (Waterford Campus), Ireland are the settings for this work.
David Cassian Cole:
Title: Celtic Deserts and Today's Celtic Heart.
Description: The early Desert tradition was a deep inspiration on Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Christianity of the first millennia CE. However, there are not many deserts in Britain and Ireland, so their monasticism was an appropriation of that inspiration. Today many folk are inspired by Celtic Christianity from that period. Using the same practice of drawing ancient inspiration into our own context, modern practitioners embody the ancient essence within modern life.
Bio: David Cassian Cole is a modern monastic practitioner within a globally dispersed New Monastic Order - The Community of Aidan and Hilda. He has been a member for around 20 years and is an international teacher and author on Celtic Christianity, both historical and modern. His books can be found here: Books - Waymark Ministries.
Rev Canon John McLuckie:
Bio: John McLuckie is Rector of Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh’s Old Town.
He is a teacher of spirituality, a retreat leader, spiritual director and Zen practitioner.
His research on William Johnston’s relationship with Zen Buddhism led to an MPhil thesis examining Johnston’s ritual practice as a participative form of comparative theology.
Fr Adam Bucko:
Bio: Father Adam Bucko has been a committed voice in the movement for the renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement. He has taught engaged contemplative spirituality in Europe and the United States, and has authored Let Your Heartbreak be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation and co-authored Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation, and The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living.
Committed to an integration of contemplation and just practice, he cofounded an award-winning non-profit, the Reciprocity Foundation, where he spent 15 years working with homeless youth living on the streets of New York City, providing spiritual care, developing programs to end youth homelessness, and articulating a vision for spiritual mentoring in a post-religious world. He currently serves as a director of The Center for Spiritual Imagination at the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York, and is a member of “The Community of the Incarnation,” a ‘new monastic’ community dedicated to democratizing the gifts of monastic spirituality and teaching contemplative spirituality, in the context of hearing and responding to the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth.
Adam lives in New York with his wife, Kaira Jewel Lingo, a Buddhist teacher and former nun in the community of Thich Nhat Hanh. Together they lead The Buddhist-Christian Community for Meditation and Action.
An archive recording will be made for the EICSP archive.
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