Hello,
This Friday we're meeting in the NAVE as an experiment so make your way there at 7.40 if you're team meetinging. Any extra hands available a bit earlier to help set up the cafe most appreciated.
Finally, our Nightchurch leader Ian Adams has written a book!
Cave Refectory Road: monastic rhythms for contemporary living by Ian Adams is available from the publisher Canterbury Press and from Amazon:
Ian Adams captures the essential genius of the monastic tradition and combines it with his own experience as poet, family man and abbot of a ‘new-monastic community’ to address the dis-ease of so much of our contemporary ways of living. His book gives simple, practical inspiration for ‘ordinary living’ and re-calls monks and nuns, friars and sisters to the passion of their founders as it asks: “How did the dynamic way of the passionate, scandalous re-imaginer Jesus give way to so much that is passionless, repressed and safe? How did the movement that challenged an empire become an institution parodied as weak, obsessive or irrelevant?”
If you know someone (perhaps yourself) who is spiritual but not religious I strongly suggest giving them this book. Ian Adams has beautifully and unabashedly mined the Christian monastic tradition and found gold for our spiritually impoverished time. You can find no better guide.
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Abbot Stuart Burns OSB Mucknell Abbey
If you know someone (perhaps yourself) who is spiritual but not religious I strongly suggest giving them this book. Ian Adams has beautifully and unabashedly mined the Christian monastic tradition and found gold for our spiritually impoverished time. You can find no better guide.
- Nadia Bolz-Weber, founding pastor of House for all Sinners and Saints, a Lutheran mission church in Denver Colorado and author of 'Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television' (Seabury 2008).
This book is a gem. For those seeking to follow in the way of Christ today, Ian opens up the gifts and insights of religious communities in a very imaginative fashion. He manages the difficult art of writing in a way that has real depth but is still accessible and easy to grasp. It's heartfelt and inspired.
- Jonny Baker author, blogger, CMS pioneer mission leadership team leader
Laura
Friday Night Coordinator
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