Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets HeavenA Pilgrimage
Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Religion & Spirituality,Christianity
Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets HeavenA Pilgrimage Details
While highly personal, this book provides at the same time a revealing insight into the meaning of Mount Athos. (Kallistos Ware, Bishop of Diokleia, author of The Orthodox Way)This is a gem of a book, a lovely, funny, touching account of a poets search for wisdom... (Philip Zaleski, coauthor of Prayer: A History and editor of The Best American Spiritual Writing series)[Cairns] opens his heart and ours to the holy mysteries of his Orthodox faith. (Rodger Kamenetz, Professor of English and Religious Studies, Louisiana State University and author of The Jew in the Lotus)Scott Cairns is the ideal guide -- relaxed, invitingly conversational [...] but always evoking the awe that these mysteries deserve. (Frederica Mathewes-Green, author of Facing East)A skilled poet on an arduous prayer pilgrimage... (Eugene Peterson, author of The Message)Enlivening, intelligent, occasionally rich in irony but never cynical... (Pam Houston, author of Sight Hound)
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