To the Church in the West

In this timely and evocative essay, Father Brendan Ellis Williams, CMR suggests a unique and substantive path forward for Christianity in the West: returning to the mystical and experiential teachings and practices of the early monastic tradition in order to courageously re-inhabit and intelligently adapt an authentic system of spiritual technology that can be genuinely transformative for its adherents and the world. With an expansive and characteristically monastic tone, fervently rejecting all forms of fundamentalism and encouraging interfaith discourse, this fresh and boundary-defying essay, rooted in the author's lived experience and scholarship, represents a sincere and passionate call, here in the seeming twilight of the Church's long history in the West, to return to what is truly meaningful and transformational in Christian tradition.