Seeking Paradise"The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it." Thomas Merton "Thomas Merton, with his Cistercian instinct for religious purity, simplicity, and the sacramental value of work, was, as this illuminating volume shows, the natural dialogue partner with the Shakers and their artful work." Lawrence S. Cunningham, author, Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision

many for the first time

especially in relation to Black religion and the Church

a native of Belgium

McKenna breathes life into the prophets and opens their messages to us

In this dictionary of monastic wisdom

Nouwen's friend and student

his frustrating experiences teaching at Yale and Harvard and his final years caring for disabled adults at a religious community in Canada

but they shared a common thread of strong intelligence and fearless following of their vocations

even to the point of engaging and confronting armed actors in many places and on many occasions

Catholic Press Association Award and Independent Publisher’s Award

"Deforestation means women walking twice as far each day to gather wood

This is how the disciples were to live in the midst of empire