Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously declared that since many of the church’s words of proclamation have gone dead, its ministry must be for now a silent affair, characterised by prayer and right action.
Many people these days cannot hear the church when it speaks. But what if the church were deliberately to be quiet? How might a contemplative church connect with and communicate to our age? Eleven years ago, Sarah Bachelard founded Benedictus Contemplative Church.
Join this conversation with Sarah and Laurence Freeman as they reflect on what is being learned and on questions emerging.
Leader
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Sarah Bachelard
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Revd Dr Sarah Bachelard is a theologian and leads the Benedictus Contemplative Church in Canberra, Australia. She studied theology at Oxford with Rowan Williams. She is a leading teacher with the WCCM and gave the John Main Seminar in 2019, A Contemplative Christianity for Our Time (2020, Medio media)Â which is the title of her most recent book.
Other Leaders
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Laurence Freeman
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Director of WCCM. Benedictine Monk. Author of a number of books on Christian Meditation.Oxford University. Laurence Freeman OSB is an English Benedictine monk and Catholic priest. He is the director of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), prior of its Benedictine Oblate community and director of Bonnevaux, the international centre of the WCCM in France. Freeman’s work also involves encouraging the teaching of meditation to children and university students. In 2005 he founded the John Main Centre for Meditation and Inter-Religious Dialogue at Georgetown University
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