Derek Rishmawy, Alastair Roberts, Brad East, and James Wood trace the evangelical spiritual formation movement from Richard Foster through Dallas Willard to John Mark Comer. They explore why disciplines resonate today amid technological distraction and desire for embodied faith, while navigating tensions between individual and communal formation, liturgy's role, and concerns about practices becoming self-optimization divorced from gospel foundations.

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Chapters

00:00 – Introduction
01:06 – Tracing the Spiritual Formation Movement
08:35 – Why Spiritual Disciplines Resonate Today
19:45 – Technology, Attention, and the Appeal of Forms
25:00 – Critiques: Self-Optimization and Theological Drift
33:12 – The Role of Set Prayers and Liturgy
44:50 – Inhabiting Forms vs. Formalism
53:00 – Suffering as Spiritual Formation
58:47 – The Danger of Christian Elitism
01:12:54 – The Parable of the Three Bricklayers