May 30 2024 55 mins 3
A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Catherine Coldstream, author of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun, and disaster struck. Halfway through the conversation, the tech failed in a spectacular way, and we lost the whole recording. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth from me.
But Catherine very kindly offered to re-record, and so we got together last Friday to capture this new conversation. I was worried that it would feel stale and rehearsed a second time around, but I needn’t have worried. Having got to know each other a little, we could relax into a questing, rambling chat about the deep pull that many of us feel towards the quiet and gentle rhythms of the monastic life, and the risks of submitting so completely.
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