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In Times Like These
How We Pray
List Price: $22.00
CLOTH , 260 pp , 5 x 7
- Seabury Books
- Aug/2005
- ISBN-13: 978-1-59627-015-2
- 0152
"We need this book. It confirms what we all know but few admit: Prayer is a very personal thing. Prayer is the deepest beat of the conscious heart. It is the continual awareness that we are not alone in the universe. In the manner of the saints before us who wrestled with the divine, we all talk to God. This book helps us to realize that, honor it, bring it to the fullness the serious life demands."--Joan Chittister
A wide variety of individuals tell stories of how they pray, or how they began or stopped praying, or how prayer saved their lives. The authors come from different walks of life: A military chaplain, a bishop, a film maker, a religious commentator, a Muslim physician, an icon painter, an illustrator, the mother of a gay son ... some of them are well known, many are not. Among the well-known are Martin Marty, Norman Mailer, Phyllis Tickle, Nora Gallagher, Frederick Buechner, Alan Jones, and Harvey Cox. These are distinctive and engaging voices. Some of the contributions are rough-hewn, some elegant. Taken together, they make a fascinating mosaic of prayer as something that people do in their daily lives not only or merely or ever in formal worship.
A wide variety of individuals tell stories of how they pray, or how they began or stopped praying, or how prayer saved their lives. The authors come from different walks of life: A military chaplain, a bishop, a film maker, a religious commentator, a Muslim physician, an icon painter, an illustrator, the mother of a gay son ... some of them are well known, many are not. Among the well-known are Martin Marty, Norman Mailer, Phyllis Tickle, Nora Gallagher, Frederick Buechner, Alan Jones, and Harvey Cox. These are distinctive and engaging voices. Some of the contributions are rough-hewn, some elegant. Taken together, they make a fascinating mosaic of prayer as something that people do in their daily lives not only or merely or ever in formal worship.
The Rev. Canon Malcolm Boyd is poet/writer-in-residence at Los Angeles' Episcopal Cathedral Center of St. Paul. Best known for his autobiography Are You Running with Me, Jesus, he has also written more than two dozen other books. Frank Deford, the NPR commentator, said of Boyd: "He is to prayer what Shakespeare is to the sonnet."
J. Jon Bruno became the sixth Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles in 2002. He oversees 147 congregations, some 400 clergy, 40 schools and 20 social-service and chaplaincy institutions. Bishop Bruno and Canon Boyd have been friends for many years.
J. Jon Bruno became the sixth Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles in 2002. He oversees 147 congregations, some 400 clergy, 40 schools and 20 social-service and chaplaincy institutions. Bishop Bruno and Canon Boyd have been friends for many years.
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