Join us for Leading Monastic Lives in the World Today, a webinar dialogue with Fr. Adam Bucko and Katie Gordon on Tuesday, April 14 7:00 pm EST. Sign up here to receive a Zoom link.
Since last June the three young women in the Benedictine Peacemakers Program have lived at the monastery immersed in an experience of the Benedictine monastic life of prayer, community, and ministry. They will complete their year-long experience in May and move out of the monastery and into the rest of their lives. After a year in a monastery whose purpose is to ferment spiritual and personal growth as well as to support good works and seek peace, they are not the same women they were when they moved in last year. Fortunately, there are many ways today to take their monastic experience with them and keep it alive. This next webinar in their Peacemaker Program curriculum is designed to help them make that transition.
You are also invited to consider some of the innovative ways that the monastic wisdom tradition is being lived and shared in new ways by seekers who live in the monastery of the world because we believe that monasticism is a much-needed gift for today. How do we ensure it’s a gift available to all who long for it?
The webinar, free and open to all, will be an interview between Fr. Adam Bucko of the Center for Spiritual Imagination and Katie Gordon of Monasteries of the Heart. Katie and Adam will explore how new expressions of monastic community are bridging this ancient tradition to contemporary seekers in ways that enable more people to commit to lives of prayer, service, and transformation, in and beyond the monastery.
In this one-hour conversation, we will learn from Adam’s experiences and stories of monastic and new monastic communities, where he has most recently helped to establish the Center for Spiritual Imagination (CSI) which offers a Vowed New Monastic Path and Community.
The webinar is Tuesday, April 14 7:00 pm EST
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The Rev. Adam Bucko is a co-founder and Director of the Center for Spiritual Imagination and is an Episcopal priest serving at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. Adam has been a committed voice in the movement for the renewal of Christian Contemplative Spirituality and the growing New Monastic movement. He has taught engaged contemplative spirituality in Europe and the US and co-authored two books: Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Vision for a New Generation and The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living. His latest book, published in 2022, is Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide: Lessons in Engaged Contemplation. Committed to an integration of contemplation and just practice, he co-founded an award-winning non-profit, the Reciprocity Foundation, where he spent 15 years working with homeless youth living on the streets of New York City, providing spiritual care, developing programs to end youth homelessness and articulating a vision for spiritual mentoring in a post-religious world. Adam's substack is Contemplative Witness with Adam Bucko.
Katie Gordon is the Coordinator of Monasteries of the Heart. She joined the team in the summer of 2019, when she started as the Joan Chittister Intern. As coordinator, she helps to build the community of this “monastery without walls,” develop creative opportunities for study and spiritual growth, and curate the newsletters and monastic wisdom featured across this website. Katie has spent much of her working life building interfaith and interspiritual communities, and offering paths of becoming and belonging to those who are “spiritual but not religious,” including with Nuns & Nones and The Formation Project. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, she studied religion, politics and ethics, with a focus on religious literacy, technology, and media. Katie lives in Erie, PA with the Benedictine Sisters in a small intentional community called the Pax Priory and writes Following the Monastic Impulse, personal blog about monastic tradition and experimentation.
