New Directions in Prayer: The Jesus Prayer

“Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner”

Listen to “The Jesus Prayer: An Ancient Christian Prayer in the Context of Community” in full here:

The Jesus Prayer:
An Ancient Christian Prayer in the Context of Community

New Directions in Prayer is a three-part series of one-hour radio episodes produced by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life for its media project Rethinking Religion.  “The Jesus Prayer: An Ancient Christian Prayer in the Context of Community,” the second episode in the series, utilizes a vast collection of existing ethnographic field studies recorded at the world’s oldest active monasteries and hermitages in Egypt, Mt. Sinai, Mt. Athos, Greece, Romania, and Russia to bring the virtually unknown Jesus Prayer and the ancient practice of hesychia (silence and stillness) to American audiences.

This program was made possible through a grant from the Social Science Research Council, with support of the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect the views of the Social Science Research Council or the John Templeton Foundation.

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