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Discussion series that explores spiritual themes through music, prose and poetry.

Writer and priest Malcolm Doney examines the act of rumination, which refers both to digestion and the process of deep thought or consideration. He draws comparisons with a host of other natural processes, where material enters in one form and is then converted into something new and life-giving.

Exploring topics ranging from Bible interpretation to composting, Malcolm draws on the words of American novelist Ann Pratchett and farmer and yoga teacher Jennifer Lynn to underpin his observations.

The process of fermentation is also explored as it has always been linked to Christianity's core ritual - Holy Communion. Both grain and grape are made new through fermentation. Malcolm argues that our ideas and beliefs work on our insides like yeast. Invisibly, we are leavened, we rise.

Malcolm concludes that, through rumination, we can access our darkest recesses in which an enormous source of energy for new life can be found. This is a deep, almost unfathomable well from which we can draw spiritual nutrition, wisdom and understanding that provide us with fuel for living.

Presenter: Malcolm Doney
Producer: Jonathan O'Sullivan
A TBI Media production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 21 Jan 2018 23:30

Music Played

  • John Michael Talbot

    Lectio Divina

    Performer: John Michael Talbot.
  • The Cathedral Singers

    I Am the Bread of Life

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Moonlight Sonata

    Performer: Laura Rossi.
  • Nick Drake

    From The Morning

Readings

Title: The Love of Learning and The Desire God: A Study of Monastic Culture

Author: Jean Leclercq

Publisher:听Fordham University Press

Title: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

Author: Ann Patchett

Publisher: Byliner Inc.

Title: The Art of Fermentation: An In-depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World

Author: Sandor Ellix Katz

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

Title: The Bible - Matthew 13:33

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Title: The Bible - 2 Corinthians 5:17

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Title: Poetry in the Making: A Handbook for Writing and Teaching

Author: Ted Hughes

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Title: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Title: Four Quartets

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Broadcasts

  • Sun 21 Jan 2018 06:05
  • Sun 21 Jan 2018 23:30