Monastic Bells and the Interrupted Life: Christiana Peterson :: On Pause [Eps 13]
Christiana Peterson is the author of Mystics and Misfits: Meeting God through St. Francis and Other Unlikely Saints. We talk about the artist as contemplative parent, story, and mental health. Her writing on the mystics, community, the spiritual disciplines of motherhood, and death have been featured in Christianity Today, Art House America, The Christian Century, and Bearings Online. She's a regular contributor to Good Letters, an Image Journal blog. She lives in Ohio with her husband and four children.
We talk about:
finding mental space to process crisis in music and story,
making meaning from experience through writing and narrative,
bringing a rule of life to home,
disruption as an invitation to experience God and contemplation,
mental health and sharing the things that do not fade.
Christiana reads from:
Padraig O'Tuama's Prayer: https://www.corrymeela.org/news/126/the-prayer-of-courage and
Ronald Rolheiser's Domestic Monastery: https://paracletepress.com/products/domestic-monastery
Find Christiana at christiananpeterson.com. Her upcoming book Awakened by Death: Life-giving Lessons from the Mystics is available for pre-order at Indiebound, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon. It releases October 2020.
Other resources mentioned:
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Hutchmoot Conference: http://www.hutchmoot.com/
On Pause: Healing Words from Everyday Artists during Isolation is a special series to help creative people find groundedness, belonging, and courage during the coronavirus outbreak. I’ve asked artists to share words that are beacons of honesty, truth, and goodness to their souls during this time of distance as a global community on pause.
