I hope that your summer prayer experience is a pleasant and fruitful one. Mine is.
I found this video interview of Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams, the chapters of whose book, Being Disciples, we studied at our May Explorations sessions. When I asked us to take on this summer prayer project, I said that my hope was for all of us also to consider what we may be able to do as individuals and as a community to be better disciples, especially, in finding effective ways to share what we learn and experience with others. I think that this video will help both our prayer experiences and our missionary disciple callings. Why? Just look at these questions and topics put to Archbishop Williams. (I am working on having one page for each, showing the video, transcript and a reflction on the clip, a time consuming task. (Ten completed; 9 to go!)
Sister Loretta
TOPICS
- ON BEING A SPIRITUAL PERSON RATHER THAN A RELIGIOUS PERSON
- ON NOT GOING TO CHURCH; ON NOT BELONGING TO A COMMUNITY
- IS TODAY’S TREND TOWARD BEING “SPIRITUAL AND NOT RELIGIOUS” A WAY TO AVOID FACING OUR MORTALITY?
- ATHEISTIC VIEWS OF GOD vs. A PERSON HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
- AN ATTITUDE OF TRUST TOWARD GOD MAKES FOR A NEW KIND OF LIFE
- IS GOD TRULY LISTENING?
- IS GOD PERSONALLY INTERESTED IN ME?
- GOD AND TRAGEDIES
- WHY DOES MY PRAYER SEEM TO GO UNANSWERED?
- HOW DOES PRAYER WORK
- SO SHOULD THE QUESTION BE: NOT “IS GOD LISTENING?” BUT “AM I LISTENING?”
- IS THIS THE SAME AS WHAT PEOPLE CALL “MINDFULNESS” OR “SPIRITUALITY”?
- YOU, A LEARNED MAN, PRAYS. WHY DO YOU PRAY?
- DID GOD CREATE EVIL AND, IF NOT, WHERE DID IT COME FORM?
- WHAT’S THE BEST PROOF OF GOD’S EXISTENCE? IS IT HIS SELF-REVELATION?
- HOW CAN I TELL WHEN GOD IS BEING SILENT vs. WHEN GOD JUST ISN’T HERE?
- I FEAR THAT MY PRAYING WOULD BE A SIGNAL THAT I AM A WEAK PERSON