Book Club: We need everyone on the boat
We are so glad our book club is proving popular – so many of you are joining us online, sharing the videos and reflections, and engaging with the content! For our penultimate session of Reading the Final Synod Document Together, we explored part 5 of our Book Club with two guest speakers from Discerning Leadership this week.
Avril Baigent was in conversation with David McCallum SJ and Sandra Chaoul sharing fascinating insights into the fifth chapter – ‘Forming a People for Missionary Discipleship’. They discussed how formation is for everyone, not just for clergy – and it is a call for each of us to foster the capacity for discernment and develop the spiritual disposition for this synodal ‘paradigm shift’ as we journey together.
This event is the fifth in a series of conversations hosted by the School for Synodality and synod experts to reflect on the Final Synod Document in more depth. For 6 weeks, the School for Synodality’s Director Dr Avril Baigent unpacks with guest speakers a different section, reflecting on its theological and practical implications, with time for questions afterwards.