Cynthia Bourgeault - Centering Prayer (N199)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Cynthia Bourgeault is a mystic, priest, and author, who is committed to teaching and spreading the recovery of Christian contemplative practices. So she’s the perfect guide for nomad’s ongoing exploration of contemplative practices. Â
She’s been a long-time advocate of the meditative practice of Centering Prayer, and so that’s what we quizzed her on.
After the interview, Nomad hosts Tim Nash and Nick Thorley reflect on their own relationship with prayer - pre and post-deconstruction - and ponder what place Centering Prayer might have in their evolving faith.Â
Interview begins at 14m 30s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | Good news. It's everyone's favorite ultramarathon running podcast co-host, Nick Thorley. |
| 0:46.6 | Hi. |
| 0:47.3 | So this is two episodes in a row for you. |
| 0:48.9 | This is probably the first time you've done this in like eight years, isn't it? |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah. It's weird. |
| 0:52.7 | Yeah. How do you feel? |
| 0:53.8 | I feel like I'm living in 2011. |
| 0:55.7 | It's good feeling. Well, no, there's no Netflix. I haven't got an iPhone yet. |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, it's pretty terrible. It's a difficult time, isn't it? Yeah, it's really bad. People say |
| 1:06.3 | technology, it's like ruining things. It's not, it's making things loads better. So much better. |
| 1:14.8 | As we promised at the end of last episode with Christopher Collingwood, |
| 1:19.2 | which kind of proved mildly controversial, I'd say, that episode. |
| 1:25.8 | But we promised that we would have a conversation with Cynthia Bourgeois about centering prayer. |
| 1:29.2 | She's one of the leading advocates of centering prayer in the world, |
| 1:30.6 | and that's exactly what we're going to do today. |
| 1:31.4 | I'm going to have a word with her. |
| 1:34.7 | So I was hanging out with Cynthia for a few hours in Liverpool, |
| 1:38.7 | which I think that is the first episode we have done in Liverpool. |
| 1:40.8 | In fact, I think it's the first time I've been to Liverpool. |
| 1:41.7 | Really? |
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