The Forum with The Rev. Laurel Mathewson: In Conversation with Teresa of Ávila (In-Person)

Name: The Forum with The Rev. Laurel Mathewson: In Conversation with Teresa of Ávila (In-Person)
Start: 2025-10-12T09:30:00-07:00
Location: 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94108

Schedule

Sun, 12 Oct, 2025 at 09:30 am

UTC-07:00

Location

1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94108 | San Francisco, CA

At age twenty-one, the pain of losing her mother to cancer sent Laurel Mathewson—with a naturally skeptical and questioning outlook—on a years-long existential journey. Laurel began to read The Interior Castle, Saint Teresa of Ávila’s book about the “dwellings” within our souls that we move through to develop an ever-deepening relationship with God through prayer. An Intimate Good: A skeptical Christian mystic in conversation with Teresa of Ávila,
A beautifully written and moving memoir, she illustrates an ancient reality still very much alive today: the love and closeness of a good God, as known through Jesus Christ, who seeks to move out into the world, into our very bodies and lives. Not by nature or training inclined to believe such a wild claim, Laurel discovered that God is full of surprises.
Join Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Mathewson about bringing to life the complex frameworks and ideas of The Interior Castle. and also the living God who is at the heart of it.