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From Contemplative Outreach of Atlanta and Chicago
Coloring Outside the Lines by
Returning to Elementary Questioning:
How Should I Contemplate?
With Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher
May 11 via Zoom
Join us for a morning with Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher as she guides us in this session with the purpose of deepening and personalizing our own practice, both individually and collectively, with a heart for becoming more self- and others- compassionate.
What do historical and contemporary contemplative experts say about how contemplation should be done? How can we take their teachings to reimagine and reinvigorate our own spiritual practices and paths? Carmen will explore works by well-known contemplatives such as the anonymous author of the Cloud of Unknowing, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes, Brother Lawrence, the Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman, and more.
Presenter: Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author, educator, and poet. An award-winning translator, she has made accessible works of Early Modern French, German, Latin, Middle English, and Old English, by writers including the seventeenth-century friar Brother Lawrence, Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg, the Cloud’s Anonymous, Julian of Norwich, and tenth-century Benedictine monk Ælfric of Eynsham. Carmen’s translation of The Cloud of Unknowing (2018) won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association. Her tenth book, Practice of the Presence, is a revolutionary translation of the wisdom of Brother Lawrence, released in 2022.