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Episode 3 | Religious Life Part 1

Episode Description

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.

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Life’s greatest questions deserve serious conversation. Listen in as Sister Joan Chittister and Tom Roberts think through ideas about God, finding purpose, cultural evolution, and much more. Sister Joan, a Benedictine nun of seventy years, shares her wisdom and insights with her longtime friend and biographer, former National Catholic Reporter editor Tom Roberts. This podcast is a joint project of Benetvision and the NCR.