The Contemplative Spirituality Movement: Part 1 | Marcia Montenegro
Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly
Haley Williams
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
From contemplative prayer to spiritual directors and spiritual formation programs at churches, "contemplative spirituality" is deeply embedded in many churches across the world.... only, many Christians don't even realize what is happening or know how to identify the movement has arrived in their church.
Marcia Montenegro joins us to explain the many facets of the movement and helps explain where they come from - and where they are ultimately leading.
Topics discussed: Jackie Hill Perry rejecting the Enneagram
Practicing the Way by Jon Mark Comer
Spiritual directors, Spiritual formation
Eastern Mysticism, contemplative spirituality, The New Age
Part 2 will be released 1/16/23.
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| 0:19.2 | Shop Abercrombie denim in the app, online and in store. Hi, guys, and welcome to a new episode of Kindled. I am super pumped to bring you this conversation |
| 0:51.7 | with Marcia Montenegro, one of my all-time favorite guests. |
| 0:56.1 | I've had her on, I think, I don't know, a handful of times, three times now, two or three. |
| 1:01.8 | Can't keep track. |
| 1:02.9 | But this episode is no exception. |
| 1:06.0 | It is a really good one. |
| 1:08.0 | No, no exception to the standard that you can expect from Marcia every time. |
| 1:11.0 | She brings so much context, so much information, and so much research and knowledge to the conversation around whatever topic we're discussing, whether that's the Enneagram or, like, today, contemplative spirituality, which is something that I imagine you've probably interfaced with in some way, |
| 1:31.2 | shape, or form even without knowing it. It is kind of a sneaky world. It's sneaky world out |
| 1:37.8 | there. But we're going to be kind of pulling back the veil and revealing what are some of the |
| 1:43.8 | terminologies used inside |
| 1:46.0 | this larger and broader movement of contemplative spirituality? What are some of the |
| 1:50.1 | redefined words? How do they talk about prayer and a relationship with God? And are those things |
| 1:56.6 | biblical? Do they actually align with what scripture teaches us regarding how we should pray, |
| 2:01.4 | how we can know God, and all of that? It's a really great conversation. And we ended up |
| 2:06.8 | chatting so long that this is going to be a two-part episode. So today is part one. And then you'll |
| 2:12.3 | get part two next week. And so we'll be back with the second half of this conversation. So really happy to be |
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