Episode 1: Rediscovering the tradition (17 min.)
"Centering prayer is not something new," Keating tells interviewer Tom Fox. "It is simply an effort to update the apophatic contemplative tradition coming down from Gregory...
Episode 2: Consenting to the invitation to transformation (16 min.)
Centering prayer is a gift of grace, Keating says. "But to sit there waiting for it to drop from heaven is not the right approach to awaken something that...
Episode 3: Encountering silence (19 min.)
Silence is so much an aspect of the spirituality of the old and New Testament. Everything comes out of silence and returns to it. So it should be a part of education," Fr. Keating...
Episode 4: The need for renewal (19 min.)
Forty years of studying contemplation has led Fr. Keating to this conclusion: "All of Christianity and especially the institutional aspects and structures of it need to be regularly...
Episode 1: The immediate crisis (26 min.)
Though McKibben describes himself as "exuberated and exhilarated and optimistic in many ways," he acknowledges his career "as a professional bummer-outer" and must first lay out the...
Episode 2: One planet at a time (34 min.)
"Now we're going to figure out what to do," McKibben says in the second half of his Sept. 11 keynote address at St. Philip Neri Parish's Muddy Boot Festival in Portland, Ore. For...
Episode 3: Loving your neighbor (8 min.)
A number of audience members who had come to hear McKibben speak at the Muddy Boot Organic Festival Sept. 11 later told NCR that they were struck and inspired by this exchange...
Episode 3: What do we mean by 'transformation'? (15 min.)
"A lot of people still think that transformation means becoming more pious or becoming more law abiding or becoming more polite," Rohr tells Tom Fox. "By...
Episode 2: 'We don't have time for opposition' (13 min.)
"The future of Christianity is ecumenical," Rohr tells Tom Fox. No single denomination is big enough to contain Jesus, he says and outlines three characteristics of "...
Episode 1: A different consciousness (27 min.)
Rohr tells Tom Fox: "I am convinced that prayer is a descriptor word for a different consciousness. When Jesus goes out and prays for 40 days, he is not saying Hail Marys and...
Episode one: Rules for the quest (17 min.)
Tom Fox asks, What are the ground rules for the journey of this quest to recognize the living God? Johnson names three: 1) God is an ineffable, incomprehensible mystery and we can...
Episode two: The liberating God of life (20 min.)
"In the book of Exodus, when the slaves are in dire straits in Egypt, it's interesting that the God of Abraham does not identify with Pharaoh, which most deities do identify...
Episode 1: Come at life fresh, moment by moment (27 min.)
"I was talking with a Chinese Zen master once and he said one of the difficulties of dealing with Catholics is that they love their spiritualities ... as if it was a...
Episode 2: Helping a person take another step (24 min.)
When Kennedy went to study with a Japanese Zen master, the Buddhist told him: " 'I do not want to make you a Buddhist. I want to empty you in imitation of your Lord...
Episode 1: Bruteau's spiritual journey (26 min.)
As an undergraduate, studying mathematics and physics, Bruteau was "feeling for something that you'd have to call mystical, and I wasn't finding anything that suited me,"...
