WHERE GOD HAPPENS: DISCOVERING CHRIST IN ONE ANOTHER by Rowan Williams. Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

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Those breathtakingly strange fellows called the Desert Fathers are perennially popular. They were in many ways the beginning of the movement that resulted in the more orderly institution of monasticism that continues to this day. The universality of their appeal is striking. But few people today look to them as literal role models for life—after all, they lived in caves in the desert and didn’t eat much. What makes Rowan Williams’s new book so intriguing is that he very much sees these spiritual nonconformists as models for our lives. Yes, even today. What many people miss, Archbishop Williams says, is that the Desert Fathers and Mothers were hermits only within the greater context of community. Understand this, and you see them in a whole new way: as models for relationship, for how to live together in peace, for seeing each person we meet as truly in the image and likeness of God.

Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics, says: “This compelling work of scholarship and spirituality shows why the Archbishop of Canterbury is truly a breath of fresh air, and one of the most important and hopeful church leaders we have today.”

THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD by Brother Lawrence. Foreword by Tessa Bielecki.

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The author of this little book, a simple French Carmelite monk, would likely have vanished from human memory like most of the other holy people of history—except for the fact that a fellow monk was inspired to write down his teaching for the edification others. This work, known ever after as The Practice of the Presence of God, ensured Brother Lawrence’s enduring influence. His conversations, letters, and sayings contained in this book have changed readers’ lives for more than three hundred years now, and there is not much chance he will ever be forgotten. No book better or more succinctly expresses the joy of finding God in the ordinary circumstances of our everyday lives. It is one of the true classics of Christian spiritual literature—and it appears in its New Seeds edition as a finely produced hardcover with ribbon marker.