Summary: <p></p> <p>Today I enjoyed spending some of the morning with Rev Ian Spencer. Ian is an Anglican priest and runs a retreat centre not far from here. He’s very involved in interfaith work and is also a Zen Buddhist. He seemed like the perfect person to speak to about Buddhism and Christianity.</p> <p>In this conversation I ask him what Zen Buddhism offers his Christian practice, how he makes sense of ‘The only way to the Father is through me’ and we get to the mystical heart of each tradition.</p> <p>We cover topics like intimacy, holiness, relative and absolute truth.</p> <p>Ian mentions books by <a href="http://contemplativeway.org/">James Finley</a> and <a href="http://merton.org/">Thomas Merton</a>.</p>
