In Times Like These: How We Pray - Hardcover

9781596270152: In Times Like These: How We Pray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596270152 ISBN 13: 9781596270152

Publisher: SEABURY BOOKS, 2005

A wide variety of individuals tell stories of how they pray, or how they began or stopped praying, or how prayer saved their lives. Each story is unique and compelling; no one model fits all.

The authors come from diiferent walks of life; a military chaplain, a bishop, a film maker, a religous commentator, a muslim physican, an icon painter, an illustrator, and the mother of a gay son. Writers include Martin Marty, Norman Mailer, Phyllis Tickle, Nora Gallagher, Frederick Buechner, Allen Jones, and Harvey Cox.

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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.

About the Author:

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."

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