Review by Elizabeth Orens Next to my desk is a pile of treasured books about silence, solitude, and the desert fathers: Martin Laird’s Into the Silent Land, Sarah Maitland’s A Book of Silence, Rowan Williams’s Where God Happens, and Benedicta Ward’s edition of The Desert Fathers. I’m delighted to add Kim Haines-Eitzen’s Sonorous Desert to these old favorites. In a world … [Read more...] about The Rewards of Deep Listening
Archives for January 2, 2023
Friendship and Unity
Review by Richard Mammana Jr. Malines is the French name for a Flemish city near Antwerp called Mechelen today and usually known in English as Mechlin. It was the site of informal but important conversations about unity by Roman Catholics and members of the Church of England between 1921 and 1927 — the “Malines Conversations” that are reckoned as the precursors of all … [Read more...] about Friendship and Unity
A Servant Who Continues to Lead
Review by Charles Hoffacker William Temple was the most influential Archbishop of Canterbury of the 20th century, yet since his early death in 1944, relatively few books about him have appeared, many of them before 1970. Stephen Spencer, director for theological education at the Anglican Communion Office in London, has done much to address this shortage with his William … [Read more...] about A Servant Who Continues to Lead
Leaders of Character, People of Faith
(Author Russ Levenson was interviewed on the Living Church Podcast about his book and his experience as pastor to a president. Listen) Review by W.L. Prehn Without a community to bestow it, there can be no authentic dignity. Dignity is given to someone by those with whom the person loves, works, worships, cries, and laughs. A community will not bestow dignity on one of its … [Read more...] about Leaders of Character, People of Faith