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Episode 17: Interview with Rev. Dr. Sarah Bachelard
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 01:22:22
Publish Date: 2019-06-06 13:36:01
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Sarah Bachelard

Sarah Bachelard is a theologian, retreat leader and priest in Anglican Orders, based in Canberra, Australia. She is the founding director of Benedictus Contemplative Church and an honorary research fellow at the Australian Catholic University. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where she studied theology with former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. She has a Ph.D. in moral philosophy from the Australian National University and formerly worked in the Senate Committee Office of the Australian Parliament.

Sarah is a member of the World Community for Christian Meditation and attended the Contemplative Exchange gathering of younger contemplatives in Snowmass, Colorado together with Laurence Freeman, Thomas Keating, Richard Rohr and Tilden Edwards in 2017. Last year, she gave a number of retreats and talks in the UK, including at Silence in the City, at Westminster Cathedral in London and she will be the keynote speaker at the John Main Seminar in Vancouver in August 2019. Sarah is the author of Experiencing God in a Time of Crisis and Resurrection and Moral Imagination.


There are some real delights waiting for you in this episode - especially when Sarah reflects on St. Paul’s writings about no longer thinking about ourselves and our egos - I found this so liberating from the way we tend to focus on ourselves and only up making our suffering worse.  We also sort of go off script toward the end, when Sarah asks me about living in the current climate in the United States today as a committed contemplative.  I hope you’ll find some encouragement in our exchange and Sarah’s brilliant wisdom!

Sarah is an ordained Anglican priest and retreat leader, based in Canberra, Australia. She is the founding director of Benedictus Contemplative Church and an honorary research fellow at the Australian Catholic University. She was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where she studied theology with former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.  It’s also worth noting that Sarah will be the keynote speaker at this summer’s John Main Seminar in Vancouver this August, hosted annually by the World Community for Christian Meditation.
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