Learn from figures like Basil of Caesarea, John Cassian, and other early Christian spiritual thinkers as they help us to pursue freedom from disordered desires that distract the soul from attending to and living out of God's love.

Discover practices like silence, solitude, simplicity, and discernment in community not as goals in themselves, but as potent tools for healing, growth—cultivate a life in which there is more room in us for God's own self to dwell.

This course is based on the IVP book Finding Freedom in Constraint.

Jared Patrick Boyd is a pastor, spiritual director, and founding director of the Order of the Common Life, a missional monastic order reimagining religious vocations for the 21st century. In local pastoral ministry, he works to bring together the contemplative, charismatic, and sacramental streams of the church. Jared is the author of Imaginative Prayer and Finding Freedom in Constraint.