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T.M. Moore Teaching Centurions
After listening to T.M. Moore’s talk on Celtic Christianity at my first Centurions residency, I realized that the characters, adventures, and overall Christian mission of these Celts held lessons for us today.
T.M., who is dean of BreakPoint’s Centurions Program, is an expert in Celtic Christianity and joins us in this discussion of one of Christianity’s most productive and intriguing of missionaries: St. Columbanus of Ireland.
Anyone who thinks sixth-century history just isn’t their thing hasn’t read up on Columbanus, an Irish Christian missionary whose substantial achievements and feisty personality have drawn the interest of scholars and laity for centuries.
When Columbanus’s mother threw herself across the threshold of their front door in opposition to his decision to be a missionary, he simply walked over her. After landing in France, Columbanus wrote critiques of corrupt practices among the priests there—to their boss, the Pope. (They didn’t like that.)
Columbanus had a consistent zeal for orthodoxy that was his trademark, as was his commitment to the spiritual disciplines he enforced at his monasteries. He is rightly said to be the greatest of the Celtic Christians of his day.
“Discourse,” an occasional podcast on BreakPoint, applies a Christian worldview lens to a broad range of issues related to contemporary culture. Stephen Reed, a Centurion in the class of 2008, is a former talk radio host and serves as grants and foundations specialist for PFM. If you see any cultural issues out there you would like to see us address in a future podcast, e-mail Stephen at: stephen_reed@pfm.org.
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