Talking Theology

Jessica Martin - How can tradition help us pray?

Philip Plyming Season 1 Episode 11

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What's prayer all about? How can ancient forms of prayer speak to us today? What's the value in stopping to listen to God? And does formal prayer have to be unemotional and detached, or is there more going on?

Jessica Martin is a canon at Ely Cathedral, and was previously an English lecturer at Cambridge University and a parish priest in rural Cambridgeshire.

For more about Jessica Martin, see here.