Episode 3 | Religious Life Part 1

The small and aging corps of Sisters today is often, understandably, viewed as the final remnant of religious life. It is easy to conclude, from that view, that religious life is over.

"Wrong," says Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister, in this episode, a discussion that emerges from her classic book, The Fire in These Ashes: A Spirituality of Contemporary Religious Life.

The old forms of religious life, the "shape" of it, is certainly a thing of the past. "What's left," she says, "is a culture of young people looking for a way to live out their spiritual life, their contemplative understandings, their need to serve and their commitment to Jesus." Religious life isn't dead. It is changing.