John Main and the Practice of Christian Meditation

One of the greatest challenges that Christianity faces today is the practical rediscovery of its age-old traditions of prayer and contemplation, and one of the principle attempts to do this in recent times was begun by the Benedictine priest John Main. Inspired by a Hindu teacher, he developed a way of Christian meditation, and the Christian Meditation movement that he founded has spread around the world. We are going to visit the World Community for Christian Meditation in London and talk to Laurence Freeman, its current director, and two of its members. Then we will visit Thomas Ryan, the director of Unitas, an ecumenical center for spirituality and Christian meditation in Montreal, in order to find out what this Christian meditation movement is all about.