The Way We Were Spirituality & Prayer

The Way We Were Spirituality & PrayerDrawing on the story of her own monastic community, a best selling author shows how to redefine the essentials of faith in a time when old ways and formulas no longer serve. Joan Chittister is past president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. She served for twelve years as Prioress of her community, the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania. Her many books include There Is a Season, Illuminated Life, and The Ten Commandments. Related

Both a revealing testimony to the complexity of one of the great Americans and a model for the kind of writing that could shed light on many more of our public figures

he is a guest professor of philosophy and a visiting scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary

"Revelation"

These particular circumstances include the poverty and repression

women’s issues

His embrace of wisdom from other religious traditions emboldened interfaith cooperation and understanding

here are key writings of one of the 20th century's most admired spiritual writers

syncretized with new understandings and ideas

The Second Vatican Council

and much more

Ecclesiology and the challenges of reconciliation

As he writes