Mindful Convos: Recent Episodes
Monk Chat
Conversations between a Trappist monk and his curious friend on spiritual life, monasticism, life, love and any topic that comes up!
We're joined by Marco Damiano who walks us through European history from 300 to around 1200, focusing on religious and monastic developments and how they shaped culture and society!
The Desert Fathers were early Christian monks whose extreme ascetic lifestyle in the sands of Egypt inspired most of the Christian monastic traditions that came after.
Renunciation, simplicity, and living solely by the word of scripture were their directives.
In part 1 Matthew tells us about their origins and core tenets and we discuss :)
In part 2 (next week) we'll dig into the history of Christian monasticism post-Desert Fathers up to the present (or however far we get)
Matthew shares his thoughts on death and suffering, and how to face it from a place of love and selflessness
Matthew recounts his journey across the country on a small motorbike, extracting spritual lessons and how the world of long distance motorcycle riding is a microcosm for the life in general
In which James has a disjointed and somewhat poorly organized review of the last couple of years, mostly 2019
What should you do, ever!? How do you decide? WWJD?
In which we explore values frameworks, and the decision-making that these frameworks allow you to perform
How does lust relate to love? How can you cultivate deep, loving connections without physical intimacy? Why would you want to?
Love! What is it good for? Aboslutely everything!
We talk love, romance, and tease our next conversation on lust :)
In which Matthew reads Dr. Seuss, we talk about war, and I sometimes wish I cared about sports
Introducing Matthew Reid, a Trappist monk and dear friend. We'll be chatting every Sunday about various stuff!