At the age of 45, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running. His running adventures opened up insights into the nature of religious life, solitude, community, simplicity and living in harmony with creation. This unique memoir of running and religion explores spirituality with a disarming honesty and depth.

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Running to Resurrection

By the Same Author

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Creating a Space for Prayer: Mount Sinai, New York

2 Engaging the World Differently: Snohomish, Washington

3 Cracking the Imagination Open: Honiara: Solomon Islands

4 Following the God of Compassion: Hautambu, Solomon Islands

5 Discovering Kinship with all Creation: Stroud, Australia

6 Joining the Spiritual and Physical Together in Franciscan Spirituality: Assisi, Italy

7 Testing the Limits of Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Haruro, Papua New Guinea

8 Claiming the Power of God’s Blessings: Dorset, England

9 Living a Sane and Sober Life in the Midst of Turmoil: Jerusalem, Israel

10 Foiling Fear and Experiencing Healing in Community: Grahamstown, South Africa

11 Making the Dream Come True: Half Moon Bay International Marathon, California

Afterword

References and Further Reading

Copyright

• A fresh perspective on the essentials and the challenges of Christian spirituality, through the lens of running as a spiritual practice. • 'A beautiful book - honest, and wise and courageous … deeply helpful and transformative with such disconcerting truthfulness and humility.' - Richard Carter, author of In Search of the Lost

At the age of forty-five, unfit and overweight, Clark Berge, a professed Franciscan friar, took up running. In his younger life he had struggled with alcoholism and with his sexual identity. Running became cathartic not just for his body, but for making peace with the lingering shame of a troubled past, facing unresolved questions and coming to a fuller acceptance of who he was. As the elected leader of a worldwide religious community, the opportunity to run in widely differing urban and wild places –the English countryside, wide South African and Australian landscapes, busy cities and remote Pacific islands - opened up larger spiritual insights into the nature of religious life, social activism, contemplation, life on the margins, solitude and community, fear and fortitude, simplicity and living in harmony with creation, and coming in last in his first marathon. This unique memoir of running and religion explores Christian spirituality with a disarming honesty and depth.

'Running for Resurrection is food for the soul and invites all of us to participate in the resurrection here and now.'

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