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 Re: How does one get a spiritual director or mentor?
 
 7/7/2008 12:22:55 PM
User is offlinekcstrobel
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Re: How does one get a spiritual director or mentor?
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This is a great question. Peter, I want to let you know that Metamorpha has been wrestling with how to remedy the spiritual director issue for some time now. Not only is there the issue of the directors own ability to discern Christianly, but there is the issue of their training as well (e.g. has their training been done with an evangelical theology in mind?). In the coming months, Metamorpha is planning on introducing our personal remedy (in the Fall newsletter), but we know that Talbot School of Theology is trying to do so as well.

So, while this probably wasn't a very satisfying answer, I just wanted to let you know that it is something we are concerned about and are working on. Hopefully this issue will change in the near future, and there will be an organization of evangelical spiritual directors, but until then, smaller solutions are going to be necessary.

Thanks for your post, and keep an eye out for the Fall newsletter.

Blessings, kyle
 6/1/2009 2:07:00 AM
User is offlinePaul Dubuc
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 kcstrobel wrote
This is a great question. Peter, I want to let you know that Metamorpha has been wrestling with how to remedy the spiritual director issue for some time now. Not only is there the issue of the directors own ability to discern Christianly, but there is the issue of their training as well (e.g. has their training been done with an evangelical theology in mind?).

I think this is important.  Spiritual direction training with evangelical theology in mind is very hard to come by.  I'm doing the best I can with what is available to me.


Paul M. Dubuc http://paul.dubuc.org
 6/18/2009 9:38:12 PM
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Re: How does one get a spiritual director or mentor?
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Not many folks in my neck of the woods who are providing spiritual direction. I found a paper director- Henri Nowen's book "Spiritual Direction".

 6/19/2009 1:40:10 AM
User is offlinePaul Dubuc
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 Tillman wrote

Not many folks in my neck of the woods who are providing spiritual direction. I found a paper director- Henri Nowen's book "Spiritual Direction".

There's also one here on the Henri Nouwen Society web site.  That's where I found one who happened to be living in my area.  Some will do direction by correspondence (e-mail and phone calls I supose), but I wonder how effective that would be.


Paul M. Dubuc http://paul.dubuc.org
 7/21/2009 3:00:17 AM
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Re: How does one get a spiritual director or mentor?
 (United States) Modified By kcstrobel  on 7/26/2009 8:58:41 AM)

As an update to this query posted quite a while ago I thought it would be worth noting for you all who are a part of the Metamorpha community that we have begun a spiritual direction ministry. Please stick with us as we hope to grow and develop this ministry over the next few years. The goal is to have a list of metamorpha spiritual directors from all over the world who are evangelical. If you are interested in finding a director near you please check the Guidance section of metamorpha.com. Our hope is that we can provide an excellent resource for those seeking a spiritual director in the years ahead.

In Christ,

Jamin Goggin

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