
Contemplative Christianity for our Time
A course inspired by the John Main Seminar 2019 with Sarah Bachelard
Sarah Bachelard is an Anglican priest and theologian based in Canberra, Australia. She is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, with special interests in philosophy, ethics and spirituality. She is the founder and leader of Benedictus Contemplative Church, an ecumenical worshipping community with a practice of silent meditation at its heart, and is a member of The World Community for Christian Meditation. In 2006 she served as Director of the John Main Centre for Meditation and Interfaith Dialogue at Georgetown University. Sarah Bachelard is the author of Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis and Resurrection and Moral Imagination.
A course inspired by the John Main Seminar 2019 with Sarah Bachelard
‘I have come to the view that God’s love is fundamentally about the practice of peace. God is love, and,
Review of Pope Francis in conversation with Austen Ivereigh, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future (London: Simon & Schuster, 2020)
Like many in our community, I was first introduced to a meditation practice by the Buddhists. I had grown up
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