Practicing Presence
Practicing Presence
Practicing Presence is a weekly book discussion that opens with twenty-five minutes of meditation or silent prayer. Practicing Presence meets Sunday mornings during the Formation Hour. Newcomers are always welcome.
Titles are selected by group members. Books are usually available for purchase through St. Paul’s bookstore, or you may obtain them on your own.
When & Where
Sundays at 10:00 am in the Library
Leaders
Rebecca Atwood, Grimsley Graham
Current Book Selection
Living Buddha, Living Christ
Thich Nhat Hanh
“[Thich Nhat Hanh] shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth.”
— His Holiness The Dalai Lama
Nominated by Martin Luther King, Jr. for a Nobel Peace Prize, Thich Nhat Hanh is one of today’s leading sources of wisdom, peace, compassion and comfort.
The 20th anniversary edition of the classic text, updated, revised, and featuring a Mindful Living Journal.
Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views and practices?
Thich Nhat Hanh has been part of a decades-long dialogue between two great contemplatice traditions, and brings to Christianity an appreciation of its beauty that could be conveyed only by an outsider. In lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which the two traditions meet, and he reawakens our understanding of both. “On the altar in my hermitage,” he says, “are images of Buddha and Jesus, and I touch both of them as my spiritual ancestors.”
— Riverhead Books
