Rediscovering a Rule of Life Today – part 1 course
Please note that this is a repeat of the 2024 course.
A Rule of Life is something that we probably associate mostly with monks and nuns, but all Christian people, lay or ordained, can benefit hugely from a well-balanced rhythm of prayer, study, work and rest. How might we draw from ancient wisdom and contemporary patterns to shape a Rule of Life for our own context and personal circumstances? What might a Rule of Life offer to people of faith today in a world of competing demands, busyness and burnout? Rules of Life focus on finding healthy balance in our faith journey, considering how things like engagement with
Scripture, personal prayer, awareness of the world around us, going to church and our own personal situation in terms of work, education or retirement can be held in a creative and life-giving equilibrium.
This short course of four on-line lunchtime seminars spread over four months will reflect on some of the key principles of either creating a new, or refreshing an existing, Rule of Life. The four sessions of ‘Part 1’ consider Balance and Equilibrium; Immersion in Scripture; Praying with the Church; Seeing Heaven in the Ordinary.
The dates are: Weds 21 January, Weds 11 February, Weds 18 March, Weds 15 April 2026 .
Part 2 is offered in the Autumn.
Canon Dr Tom Clammer OC is a freelance theological educator and spiritual director and a professed brother and Novice Master of the Anglican Order of Cistercians, and has been living under that Rule for the last six years, which has excited him to encourage every Christian to consider forming their own Rule of Life. He is an ordained priest and ministered in urban and rural parishes in Gloucester Diocese before serving as Canon Precentor at Salisbury Cathedral. He lives just outside Salisbury.
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