Turning to Brother Lawrence

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Welcome to Season 12 of Turning to the Mystics. This season we are turning to Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection for spiritual guidance. In this episode, James Finley and Kirsten Oates cover the life and person of Brother Lawrence and discuss how we can work with his ideas to transform our lives. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile ⁠here⁠. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be⁠ ⁠⁠found here⁠. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Send us a voicemail: ⁠cac.org/voicemail⁠ We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until November 7, 2025. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at ⁠https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/⁠ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.0	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.0	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.0	And I'm Kirsten Oates.
0:13.0	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:16.0	Welcome everyone to C-A Turning to the Mystics.
0:28.1	And I'm here with Jim, and I'm excited to announce that we'll be studying practice of the presence.
0:36.1	And this is the work of Brother Lawrence. So the full title of the book
0:40.8	we're going to be using is Nicholas Herman, Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, Practice of the Presence,
0:47.9	a revolutionary translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher. And Carmen is a new faculty member at the CAC,
0:56.7	so we're very excited to be able to use this beautiful translation
1:00.4	of Brother Lawrence's teaching.
1:03.4	So, Jim, I want to welcome you here to our first episode for Season 12.
1:08.2	Yes, I'm looking forward to this series.
1:10.5	I like Brother Lawrence so much, yes.
1:12.7	Yeah.
1:13.2	Well, please tell us more about our new mystic.
1:16.3	Yes.
1:17.7	Well, as always, we'll start by sharing what we know of Brother Lawrence historically,
1:24.2	who he was historically, to help us understand who he is spiritually. And I like to
1:30.0	suggest, too, that there's a lesson in this for all of us. Who we are historically will all be
1:37.3	dead soon. In always, we're in time. So in time, who we are historically is going to be who we were
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