Meditation, it's all the rage. We ask Father Hugh about it next.

Everybody's talking about meditation and mindfulness and awareness and all of this.

Well, it turns out that Christians have been thinking about the and awareness and all of this.

Well, it turns out that Christians have been thinking about these things

for a long time, and there is an important contribution

from Christian tradition, Christian history, Christian practice

that can be made to our understanding of meditation.

Is mindfulness evil?

Is it wrong to be engaging in meditation or breathing exercises or yoga and all that?

Well, another question might be,

is there a better way, whether or not it's wrong?

Is there a better way?

So we ask that question of Father Hugh Barber.

Let's get right into that. Father, as the world slips and it does seem to, it feels like a slip away from Christianity,

just slip slip, slip, slip away from Christianity,

it seems to me that it tries to replace some of the goods of Christianity with

goods that are not quite as good and among them is the modern idea of meditation.

Does that all seem fair to you what I've just said? It can be fair, yeah. Can be fair in some cases, yeah.

And so we're, but people are fascinated by meditation. You can talk to people about meditation. They have an

interest in it. You could talk about it with people or you could talk with people about it who might otherwise

be resistant to any talk of anything religious or spiritual or anything like that. So we want to ask you this time

about basically the Christian understanding and meditation and why, I don't know, the contemporary

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