About this Event
Join Strahan for an evening of prayer, story, community and conversation exploring the themes from his new book Thirsting.
Registration is by koha - gold coin, silver coin, note, whatever you feel there's zero pressure! Your koha goes toward a gift to the Cathedral for allowing us to spend time in their spectacular space and dinner money if there's any leftover for everyone involved in putting it on.
Parking - there are approximately 70-80 free parks at the Cathedral for attendees. Please park on the grass area through the stone gate on 234 Hereford Street.
About Strahan Coleman
Strahan is a writer, musician, prayer curator and founder of Commoners Communion, a ministry devoted to helping deepen divine communion in our time. He has written three volumes of prayers, poems and contemplations and two books exploring his story and the theology and practice of rich, intimate and unceasing communion with God. He also works with Practicing The Way as a liturgist and is part their teaching team. He lives in Tairua with his wife Katie and three incredible boys Mikal, Theodore and Finley.
About Thirsting
Thirsting: Quenching Our Soul's Deepest Desire (Oct 2024) is an exploration of desire and it's place in our communion with God. It explores the yearning nature of the trinity, what it means that God himself desires us, and how to move from saying God fulfills our desires to actually experiencing it. In Thirsting, Strahan invites the reader to drink deeply of God where it matters most, and to awaken the true, deep fire of love in our every day lives.
What friends are saying about it:
“Deep souls in an era of distraction are a vanishing species. Even rarer are those few deep souls who can lovingly invite us away from our diversions into life with God. My friend Strahan is one of our modern- day desert fathers. A quiet, wise voice in a world of noise. If you want to hear God, follow this teacher, read this book, say yes to this path—the true path of prayer”
— John Mark Comer, New York Times bestselling author and founder of Practicing The Way.
“In poetic prose, Strahan Coleman strings together a compelling picture of prayer that is equally melodic and earthy—widening the eyes in wonder, enflaming the heart with desire, and also somehow staying grounded enough to embody in practice. Thirsting reads like a book that’s been lived deeply prior to being written, and that sort of book, while sadly a rarity, carries the most potent message.”
— Tyler Staton, Leader of Bridgetown Church & 24-7 Prayer US.
“Strahan is a modern-day mystic, inviting the church to sink deeper into the mystery of love found in a triune God and to join him as a fellow mystic, deepening our experience and understanding of that love. This book stirred me, called me home, and acted as a portal into God’s presence. All who are thirsty, come and read!”
— Sam Harvey, BMin, national coordinator of 24–7 Prayer New Zealand and pastor of Bay Vineyard Church.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cardboard Cathedral, 234 Hereford Street, Christchurch, New Zealand
NZD 0.00
