Signs, Wonders, and Fates Fulfilled | With Linda Cardellini

迹象、奇迹和命运实现|与琳达·卡德里尼

Modern Love

2018-05-03

22 分钟
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After Stephanie Saldaña moved to an ancient monastery in Syria, she thought she'd found her calling. But when she met a novice monk there, she had to rethink everything. Linda Cardellini ("Bloodline") reads Stephanie's essay.
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  • Modern.

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  • Produced by the Ilab at WBUR Boston.

  • From the New York Times and WBUR Boston.

  • This is modern love stories of love, loss and redemption.

  • I'm your host, Meghna Chakrabarti.

  • When she was 27 years old, Stephanie Saldanya thought she'd found her calling.

  • But at a monastery in the syrian desert, she discovered that calling was something very different than she'd imagined.

  • Stephanie's essay is signs, wonders and fates fulfilled.

  • It's read by Linda Cardellini, known for her work in bloodline mad men and freaks and geeks.

  • The first time I saw Frederic, he was wearing a long monastic habit and carrying a battered teapot.

  • Would you like some tea?

  • He asked.

  • When I said yes, he smiled and lifted the teapot high, tipping it slightly so the tea poured in a long, steaming arc.

  • The man clearly poured a lot of tea.

  • At 27, I had just arrived in Syria on a year long fellowship to study the prophet Jesus in Islam.

  • I was living in a dilapidated room in the old city of Damascus with decaying wooden doors, a non flushing toilet, and a 73 year old armenian neighbor.

  • This was six years ago, when refugees from the war in Iraq were flooding the city and my arabic studies were progressing at a painfully slow pace.

  • The cacophony of Damascus life exhausted me, not to mention the stream of admonitions from my neighbor.

  • What are you wearing that outside?