About the Contributor(s): Irene Alexander is a lecturer in counseling at the Australian Catholic University and Christian Heritage College, and also teaches in Asia. She is a spiritual director and formator, and a companion of Northumbria Community, Brisbane. Her other books include A Glimpse of the Kingdom in Academia (2013), Practicing the Presence of Jesus (2011), and You Can't Play the Game if You Don't Know the Rules (2006).

Everywhere there are voices calling for a new Reformation, marked by a return to the older sources of Christian wisdom, and for drinking anew the inspiration of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, the church fathers, those from the monastic tradition and the medieval Christian mystics. This anthology of original sources in contemporary English, structured in a meditational mode, could well be the rich resource you are looking for in hearing the ancient Christian wisdom. Here are the deep wells of theological and spiritual insight that could guide you in walking a renewed path of faith in our...