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Mark Forrester

Mark Forrester is a United Methodist clergyperson who lived most of his life in the world of higher education––as a campus minister, as Vanderbilt University Chaplain and Director of Religious Life, and as the UMC’s denominational director of Collegiate Ministries. He now enjoys retirement with his wife, extended family, and friends from many spiritual and contemplative traditions.
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‘You Can’t Pray a Lie’

Mark Forrester September 26, 2024

Over a century ago, Mark Twain created the character Huckleberry Finn, a poor orphan who had been blessed (or cursed) with an innate sense of right and wrong, which was often in conflict with the accepted norms of his day.

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Solitude Is Not Separation

Mark Forrester September 8, 2024

The Trappist monk Thomas Merton practiced and wrote about the contemplative life of interior solitude, which, he believed, was not cultivated by isolating ourselves from the world.

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