Fragile Mystics

Description

Enables clergy who feel pressured to '€˜reclaim'€™ a more prayerful life. Fragile Mystics reworks traditional concepts of prayer and gives them a contemporary '€˜spin'€™. Like Steel Angels, it draws on the author'€™s own experience as a Christian priest and offers illustrations from the world of visual arts, film and contemporary culture. It includes some biblical examples, and connects present day yearnings and wrestling€™s as a €˜person who wants to pray better€™ with those of the mystics and holy people from the Christian past. It is about '€˜reclaiming'€™ and transforming our inner spaces so that we have a renewed and hopeful approach to life and ministry. Each chapter has a short, sharp contemporary title, with a further subtitle to unpack the content, and ends with ideas for both individuals and leaders on how to put the concept under discussion into practice