I'm going to As a church, church, we've just finished a series on the nine core practices that comprise the Bridgetown Rule of Life. And as we continue to integrate it into the shared life of our church, we wanted to provide

a resource to help explore what a rule of life actually is and how we came about integrating

one into our context at Bridgetown Church. So we've created a four-part

podcast that will expound on these two questions, providing a helpful account of where we've

been and how we hope that a shared rule of life will direct where we are headed.

As we often say around here, we believe the future of the church is ancient.

If we desire to move forward in our identity and calling as a unified community,

we need to do so having the robust foundation of a rich life with God built out of shared practice.

We believe these conversations will be a helpful resource to you as you consider what a rule

of life looks like in your context and we hope you will join us for this journey as we seek to, you know that Tyler and I are having a series of conversations

with people around the world who are experts in some realm or area of rule of life or

just well versed in their own experience of it.

And it's been such a journey so far.

We've been having such a good time.

And so our final conversation right now

is going to be with Sister Heather Christine,

who is a spiritual director and a vowed member of the

Order of the Common Life which is a Protestant monastic order and she is really

wonderful she's got extensive experience serving and doing spiritual

direction with folks who are recovering from all kinds of addictions, including

survivors of trafficking, and then also with people who are working with these

folks. And so she's really deeply committed to this idea of a rule of life,

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